--- title: In Leeds and the Midlands "mardy" means sulky or grumpy, not scary;… — Building tension and suspense · tree and pragmatics description: In Leeds and the Midlands "mardy" means sulky or grumpy, not scary; "dead" can mean very, as in "dead scary". A sentence of the lesson «Building tension and suspense» 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/42-building-tension-and-suspense/16/) [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/) / [Building tension and suspense](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/) / 16 # Building tension and suspense, sentence 16 In Leeds and the Midlands "mardy" means sulky or grumpy, not scary; "dead" can mean very, as in "dead scary". **What happens:** mean This is a sentence of the lesson «Building tension and suspense» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:042-building-tension-and-suspense.lesson:16 # text = In Leeds and the Midlands "mardy" means sulky or grumpy, not scary; "dead" can mean very, as in "dead scary". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 042-building-tension-and-suspense.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 5 Midlands Midlands PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 mardy mardy NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 sulky sulky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 grumpy grumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:ccomp 22 very very ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 as as ADP IN _ 28 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 27 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 parataxis _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | | | | | | in Leeds and the Midlands and mardy; sulky *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in leeds=Attribute | | 2 | **mean** | can | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | 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:042-building-tension-and-suspense.lesson:16`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Building tension and suspense, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/15/) - next →: [Building tension and suspense, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/)