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title: «Ye» (Ireland) means you, often more than one; «lollies» (Australia)… — April Fools' Day · tree and pragmatics
description: «Ye» (Ireland) means you, often more than one; «lollies» (Australia) are sweets; «cawl» is a Welsh stew. Who acts: Ye, cawl. A sentence of the lesson «April Fools' Day» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# April Fools' Day, sentence 31

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«Ye» (Ireland) means you, often more than one; «lollies» (Australia) are sweets; «cawl» is a Welsh stew.

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**Who acts:** Ye, cawl · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** you, sweets, Welsh stew

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This is a sentence of the lesson «April Fools' Day» 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 (Ye, cawl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:440-april-fools-day.lesson:31
# text = «Ye» (Ireland) means you, often more than one; «lollies» (Australia) are sweets; «cawl» is a Welsh stew.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 440-april-fools-day.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Ye	Ye	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP:Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	13	advmod	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	lollies	lolly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:compound
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
24	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
25	cawl	cawl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	stew	stew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **mean** | present | Ye | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Ye *not said here* | sweets |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | cawl | a Welsh stew |  |  |  |  | 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:everyday:440-april-fools-day.lesson:31`.

**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, R8-pos-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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