--- title: In Liverpool a big lad told Ben, «Swap you my phone for your bike, i… — The older kid's «trade» · tree and pragmatics description: In Liverpool a big lad told Ben, «Swap you my phone for your bike, it's boss, worth way more» — in Liverpool «boss» means brilliant. Who acts: big lad, lad, boss. 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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 (big lad, lad, boss), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:445-the-older-kids-trade.lesson:7 # text = In Liverpool a big lad told Ben, «Swap you my phone for your bike, it's boss, worth way more» — in Liverpool «boss» means brilliant. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 445-the-older-kids-trade.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Liverpool Liverpool PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 Ben Ben PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 iobj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Swap swap VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 iobj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nsubj 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 bike bike NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 acl _ _ 24 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 26 — - PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 Liverpool Liverpool PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 29 « « PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 30 boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:obl 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 33 brilliant brilliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a big lad | | Ben | Liverpool | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent ben=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **swap** *in a quote* | infinitive | | my phone and boss | Ben | | | for your bike | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | lad | boss | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | boss Liverpool | | | | | brilliant *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:445-the-older-kids-trade.lesson:7`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [The older kid's «trade», 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/6/) - next →: [The older kid's «trade», 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/)