--- title: In Glasgow "hen" is a fond word for a girl or woman, and "dinnae" me… — SATs: the reading paper · tree and pragmatics description: In Glasgow "hen" is a fond word for a girl or woman, and "dinnae" means "don't"; in Singapore English "can or not?" means "is it allowed?" Who acts: Glasgow hen, fond word. 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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 (Glasgow hen, fond word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:051-sats-the-reading-paper.lesson:17 # text = In Glasgow "hen" is a fond word for a girl or woman, and "dinnae" means "don't"; in Singapore English "can or not?" means "is it allowed?" # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 051-sats-the-reading-paper.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 Glasgow Glasgow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obl 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 fond fond ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 dinnae dinnae X FW Foreign=Yes 20 discourse _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 parataxis _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 do do VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 23 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 Singapore Singapore PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advcl 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 conj _ _ 33 ? ? PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 35 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux:pass _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 ccomp _ _ 40 ? ? PUNCT . _ 39 punct _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Glasgow hen | a fond word | | | | for a girl or woman | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | present | a fond word | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **allow** *in a quote* | present · passive | | word | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | 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:051-sats-the-reading-paper.lesson:17`. **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 ×4, 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: [SATs: the reading paper, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/51-sats-the-reading-paper/16/) - next →: [SATs: grammar, punctuation and spellin…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/51-sats-the-reading-paper/)