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title: In Scotland "wee" means small, so "wee man" is a fond way to say "li… — Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell · tree and pragmatics
description: In Scotland "wee" means small, so "wee man" is a fond way to say "little lad". Who acts: wee, wee man. A sentence of the lesson «Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell, sentence 18

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In Scotland "wee" means small, so "wee man" is a fond way to say "little lad".

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**Who acts:** wee, wee man · **What happens:** mean, be, say · **To what, where:** fond way, little lad · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell» 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 (wee, wee man), 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:18
# text = In Scotland "wee" means small, so "wee man" is a fond way to say "little lad".
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
4	wee	wee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
11	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | wee |  |  |  |  | in Scotland; small *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in scotland=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | present | wee man | a fond way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | wee *not said here* | little lad |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lad=Topic |

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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.

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**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:18`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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