--- title: Picture Kai in Liverpool before his talk: "I'm proper nervous, our k… — Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell · tree and pragmatics description: Picture Kai in Liverpool before his talk: "I'm proper nervous, our kid" ("proper" means really; "our kid" means my brother or sister). Who acts: you, I, proper, kid. 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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 (you, I, proper, kid), 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:4 # text = Picture Kai in Liverpool before his talk: "I'm proper nervous, our kid" ("proper" means really; "our kid" means my brother or sister). # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Liverpool Liverpool PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 before before ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 proper proper ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 nervous nervous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 nsubj _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 23 really really ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 26 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 30 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | Kai | | Liverpool | before Liverpool's talk | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent kai=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I | | | | | nervous, proper *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | proper | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | present | our kid | my brother or sister | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic | | 5 | **talk** | | Liverpool | | | | | | nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=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:4`. **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, 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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