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title: "Mardy" is a Leeds and Midlands word for grumpy or sulky. — SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper · tree and pragmatics
description: "Mardy" is a Leeds and Midlands word for grumpy or sulky. Who acts: Mardy. A sentence of the lesson «SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper, sentence 17

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"Mardy" is a Leeds and Midlands word for grumpy or sulky.

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**Who acts:** Mardy · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Leeds word

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This is a sentence of the lesson «SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper» 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 (Mardy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:052-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper.lesson:17
# text = "Mardy" is a Leeds and Midlands word for grumpy or sulky.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 052-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Mardy	Mardy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	Midlands	Midlands	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:amod
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc
13	sulky	sulky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Mardy | a Leeds word |  |  |  | for grumpy | tree rules |

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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:052-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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/).

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