--- title: Slang in this lesson: «howay» means come on and «canny» here means q… — Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spe… · tree and pragmatics description: Slang in this lesson: «howay» means come on and «canny» here means quite (North East England); «proper job» means well done and «my lover» is a friendly greeting (West Country); «heaps» means a lot (Australia); «can or not» means «is it allowed?» in Singapore English. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (howay, canny, proper job, lover), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:004-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling.lesson:26 # text = Slang in this lesson: «howay» means come on and «canny» here means quite (North East England); «proper job» means well done and «my lover» is a friendly greeting (West Country); «heaps» means a lot (Australia); «can or not» means «is it allowed?» in Singapore English. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 004-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 lesson lesson NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 howay howay X RB _ 9 nsubj _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 10 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 ccomp _ _ 11 on on ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 canny canny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 nsubj _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 18 quite quite ADV RB _ 17 ccomp _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 20 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:amod 21 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 parataxis _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 26 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 » » PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 29 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 30 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 31 advmod _ _ 31 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:ccomp 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 33 « « PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 34 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 lover lover NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 greeting greeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 41 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 42 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 Country Country PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 44 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 45 ; ; PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 « « PUNCT `` _ 47 punct _ _ 47 heaps heap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 nsubj _ _ 48 » » PUNCT '' _ 47 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=49:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 49 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ _ 52 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 53 punct _ _ 53 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 appos _ _ 54 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 53 punct _ _ 55 ; ; PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 56 « « PUNCT `` _ 57 punct _ _ 57 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 61 aux _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=61:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 58 or or CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 59 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 57 conj _ _ 60 » » PUNCT '' _ 57 punct _ _ 61 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 62 « « PUNCT `` _ 65 punct _ _ 63 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 65 aux:pass _ _ 64 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 65 nsubj:pass _ _ 65 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 61 ccomp _ _ 66 ? ? PUNCT . _ 65 punct _ _ 67 » » PUNCT '' _ 65 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=70:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 68 in in ADP IN _ 70 case _ _ 69 Singapore Singapore PROPN NNP Number=Sing 70 compound _ _ 70 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 61 obl _ _ 71 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | howay | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **come on** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | present | canny | | | here | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | present | proper job | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **do** *not said to happen* | participle | proper job *not said here* | | | | | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | my lover | a friendly greeting | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **mean** | present | heaps | a lot | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic | | 8 | **mean** | can | | | | Singapore English | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **allow** *in a quote* | present · passive | | lover | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | 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. **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:004-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling.lesson:26`. **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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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. 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