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title: At a bus stop in Glasgow a man said «Here, wee man, a fiver if you c… — A stranger's story · tree and pragmatics
description: At a bus stop in Glasgow a man said «Here, wee man, a fiver if you carry this bag to that car» — «wee» means small in Scotland. Who acts: man, you, wee. A sentence of the lesson «A stranger's story» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# A stranger's story, sentence 19

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At a bus stop in Glasgow a man said «Here, wee man, a fiver if you carry this bag to that car» — «wee» means small in Scotland.

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**Who acts:** man, you, wee · **What happens:** say, carry, mean · **To what, where:** bus stop, bag, car · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A stranger's story» 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 (man, you, wee), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:446-a-strangers-story.lesson:19
# text = At a bus stop in Glasgow a man said «Here, wee man, a fiver if you carry this bag to that car» — «wee» means small in Scotland.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 446-a-strangers-story.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
11	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	vocative	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fiver	fiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
27	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
28	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
29	wee	wee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis
32	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a man |  |  | a bus stop in Glasgow |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **carry** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | this bag |  | that car |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme to car=Destination |
| 3 | **mean** | present | wee |  |  |  |  | small *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:446-a-strangers-story.lesson:19`.

**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): 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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