--- title: In Scots, "dreich" describes grey, damp, gloomy weather, and "pure"… — Describing: senses, showing and precise words · tree and pragmatics description: In Scots, "dreich" describes grey, damp, gloomy weather, and "pure" can mean very. Who acts: dreich, pure. A sentence of the lesson «Describing: senses, showing and precise words» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/41-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Describing: senses, showing and precis…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/41-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words/) / 14 # Describing: senses, showing and precise words, sentence 14 In Scots, "dreich" describes grey, damp, gloomy weather, and "pure" can mean very. **Who acts:** dreich, pure · **What happens:** describe, mean · **To what, where:** grey damp gloomy weather, Scots This is a sentence of the lesson «Describing: senses, showing and precise words» 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 (dreich, pure), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.lesson:14 # text = In Scots, "dreich" describes grey, damp, gloomy weather, and "pure" can mean very. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Scots Scot PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 5 dreich dreich NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 describes describe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 10 damp damp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 12 gloomy gloomy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 nsubj _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 21 very very ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **describe** | present | dreich | grey damp gloomy weather | | Scots | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent weather=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | can | pure | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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:041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.lesson:14`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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