--- title: Picture Liam in Leeds muttering "Nah, that's mardy" ("mardy" means g… — Debating and discussion · tree and pragmatics description: Picture Liam in Leeds muttering "Nah, that's mardy" ("mardy" means grumpy or sulky) about the other side: the teacher asks him to explain why he disagrees, because a reason can persuade and a grumble cannot. Who acts: you, that, mardy, teacher. 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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, that, mardy, teacher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:049-debating-and-discussion.lesson:4 # text = Picture Liam in Leeds muttering "Nah, that's mardy" ("mardy" means grumpy or sulky) about the other side: the teacher asks him to explain why he disagrees, because a reason can persuade and a grumble cannot. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 049-debating-and-discussion.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 ×3 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 Liam Liam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 muttering muttering VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:acl 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 7 Nah Nah INTJ UH Number=Sing 11 discourse _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 mardy mardy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 mardy mardy NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 18 grumpy grumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 sulky sulky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 22 about about ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 26 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 explain explain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advcl 33 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 35 advmod _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 disagrees disagree VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 ccomp _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 because because SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 40 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 persuade persuade VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 grumble grumble NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 conj _ _ 46 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | Liam | | Leeds | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent liam=Theme | | 2 | **muttering** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | mardy | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | mardy | | | | | grumpy *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the teacher | | mardy | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **explain** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the teacher *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **disagree** | present | teacher | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **persuade** | can | a reason | | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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:049-debating-and-discussion.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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: [Debating and discussion, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/49-debating-and-discussion/1/) - next →: [Debating and discussion, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/49-debating-and-discussion/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/49-debating-and-discussion/)