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title: «Mardy» (Midlands and North England) means grumpy and sulky; «youse»… — «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other · tree and pragmatics
description: «Mardy» (Midlands and North England) means grumpy and sulky; «youse» (Australia, Ireland) means «you lot»; «righto» means «all right». Who acts: Mardy, youse, righto. A sentence of the lesson ««It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# «It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other, sentence 41

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«Mardy» (Midlands and North England) means grumpy and sulky; «youse» (Australia, Ireland) means «you lot»; «righto» means «all right».

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**Who acts:** Mardy, youse, righto · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** lot

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This is a sentence of the lesson ««It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other» of the everyday 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, youse, righto), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other.lesson:41
# text = «Mardy» (Midlands and North England) means grumpy and sulky; «youse» (Australia, Ireland) means «you lot»; «righto» means «all right».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×4
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Mardy	Mardy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Midlands	Midlands	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sulky	sulky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	youse	youse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
23	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
24	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
25	you	you	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:compound|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP:Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs
26	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=23:punct
29	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
30	righto	righto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:conj
33	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
34	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
35	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	_
36	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Mardy |  |  |  |  | grumpy *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | youse | you's lot |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic |
| 3 | **mean** | present | righto |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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:everyday:432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other.lesson:41`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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