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title: In Scotland "jist" means just and "hen" is a friendly word for a gir… — Planning before writing · tree and pragmatics
description: In Scotland "jist" means just and "hen" is a friendly word for a girl or woman; in the American South "fixin' to" means about to. Who acts: jist, hen. A sentence of the lesson «Planning before writing» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Planning before writing, sentence 15

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In Scotland "jist" means just and "hen" is a friendly word for a girl or woman; in the American South "fixin' to" means about to.

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**Who acts:** jist, hen · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** Scotland, friendly word

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Planning before writing» of the english course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jist, hen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:039-planning-before-writing.lesson:15
# text = In Scotland "jist" means just and "hen" is a friendly word for a girl or woman; in the American South "fixin' to" means about to.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 039-planning-before-writing.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
4	jist	jist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:NNP:Degree=Pos
25	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
27	fixin	fixin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
32	about	about	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	fixed	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | jist |  |  | Scotland |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | hen | a friendly word |  |  |  | for a girl or woman | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present | jist *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:english:039-planning-before-writing.lesson:15`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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