--- title: In Manchester "boss" means great and "nowt" means nothing; in Newcas… — Editing and redrafting · tree and pragmatics description: In Manchester "boss" means great and "nowt" means nothing; in Newcastle "pet" is a friendly word like "love". Who acts: boss, nowt, pet. A sentence of the lesson «Editing and redrafting» 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/43-editing-and-redrafting/15/) [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/) / [Editing and redrafting](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/43-editing-and-redrafting/) / 15 # Editing and redrafting, sentence 15 In Manchester "boss" means great and "nowt" means nothing; in Newcastle "pet" is a friendly word like "love". **Who acts:** boss, nowt, pet · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** Manchester, nothing, friendly word, Newcastle · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Editing and redrafting» 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 (boss, nowt, pet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:043-editing-and-redrafting.lesson:15 # text = In Manchester "boss" means great and "nowt" means nothing; in Newcastle "pet" is a friendly word like "love". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 043-editing-and-redrafting.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 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 Manchester Manchester PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 4 boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 nowt nowt NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 12 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Newcastle Newcastle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 ccomp _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | boss | Manchester | | | | great *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | nowt | nothing | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | | 3 | **is a** | present | pet | a friendly word | | Newcastle | | like love | tree rules | 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:043-editing-and-redrafting.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Editing and redrafting, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/43-editing-and-redrafting/14/) - next →: [Writing to inform, instruct and persuade, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/43-editing-and-redrafting/)