--- title: Characters can describe things in their own voice: a Glasgow girl sa… — Describing: senses, showing and precise words · tree and pragmatics description: Characters can describe things in their own voice: a Glasgow girl saying "It's pure dreich oot the day" ("pure" means very, "dreich" means grey, wet and gloomy, "oot the day" means out today) gives us both the weather and the speaker at once. Who acts: Characters, Glasgow girl, quiet, day. 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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 (Characters, Glasgow girl, quiet, day), 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:5 # text = Characters can describe things in their own voice: a Glasgow girl saying "It's pure dreich oot the day" ("pure" means very, "dreich" means grey, wet and gloomy, "oot the day" means out today) gives us both the weather and the speaker at once. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Characters character NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 describe describe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 Glasgow Glasgow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 13 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 15 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 16 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:amod 18 dreich dreich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 oot oot NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 ccomp _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 nsubj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 28 very very ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 31 dreich dreich NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 34 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 gloomy gloomy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 40 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 41 oot oot NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ 45 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 ccomp _ _ 46 out out ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ _ 47 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=45:obj 48 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 47 punct _ _ 49 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 50 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 49 iobj _ _ 51 both both CCONJ CC _ 53 cc:preconj _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 speaker speaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 conj _ _ 57 at at ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 58 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 49 obl _ _ 59 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **describe** | can | Characters | things | | Characters's own voice | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a Glasgow girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | quiet | dreich oot | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | the day | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **mean** | present | dreich | | | | | grey *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **mean out** | present | the oot day | | | | today | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **give** | present | a Glasgow girl | the weather and the speaker | us | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent we=Recipient weather=Theme at once=Asset | 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:5`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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