--- title: A boy from Chicago in Dublin is asked "What's the craic?"; he learns… — Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world · tree and pragmatics description: A boy from Chicago in Dublin is asked "What's the craic?"; he learns it means "How are things?" and answers "Not much, and you?" Who acts: boy, craic. 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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 (boy, craic), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs.lesson:4 # text = A boy from Chicago in Dublin is asked "What's the craic?"; he learns it means "How are things?" and answers "Not much, and you?" # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs.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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Chicago Chicago PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Dublin Dublin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 10 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 13 nsubj _ _ 11 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 craic craic NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 learns learn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 22 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 25 ? ? PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 answers answer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 30 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 much much ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 conj _ _ 35 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · passive | | a boy from Chicago in Dublin | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | the craic | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **learn** | present | boy | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **mean** | present | craic | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | things | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | boy *not said here* | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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:everyday:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs.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. **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: [Handshakes, waves and greetings around…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs/3/) - next →: [Handshakes, waves and greetings around…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs/)