--- title: Filler words such as "like", "um" and "erm" are natural, but too man… — Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell · tree and pragmatics description: Filler words such as "like", "um" and "erm" are natural, but too many distract listeners; a short pause works better. Who acts: Filler words, many, short pause. 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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 (Filler words, many, short pause), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.lesson:13 # text = Filler words such as "like", "um" and "erm" are natural, but too many distract listeners; a short pause works better. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Filler filler NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 3 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 3 fixed _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 4 conj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 10 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 erm erm NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 too too ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 nsubj _ _ 22 distract distract VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 23 listeners listener NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 pause pause NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj 29 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 28 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Filler words and erm | | | | | natural *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **distract** | present | many | listeners | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus listener=Experiencer | | 3 | **work** | present | a short pause | | | | | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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:048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.lesson:13`. **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 ×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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