--- title: «Yeah nah» (Australia, New Zealand) means no; «cracked up» means bur… — Stories that change · tree and pragmatics description: «Yeah nah» (Australia, New Zealand) means no; «cracked up» means burst out laughing; a «scuffle» is a small fight. Who acts: scuffle. A sentence of the lesson «Stories that change» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/47/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Stories that change](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/) / 47 # Stories that change, sentence 47 «Yeah nah» (Australia, New Zealand) means no; «cracked up» means burst out laughing; a «scuffle» is a small fight. **Who acts:** scuffle · **What happens:** mean, crack up, burst out, laugh, be · **To what, where:** small fight · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Stories that change» 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 (scuffle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:449-stories-that-change.lesson:47 # text = «Yeah nah» (Australia, New Zealand) means no; «cracked up» means burst out laughing; a «scuffle» is a small fight. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 449-stories-that-change.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 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ _ 3 nah nah INTJ UH _ 11 nsubj _ _ 4 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 6 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 New New PROPN NNP _ 9 compound _ _ 9 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 11 discourse _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Neg 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 cracked crack VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 nsubj _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 18 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 19 burst burst VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ _ 20 out out ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 xcomp _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 scuffle scuffle 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 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **crack up** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **burst out** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **laugh** | gerund | | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | a scuffle | a small fight | | | | | tree rules | 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:449-stories-that-change.lesson:47`. **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/). - ← previous: [Stories that change, 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/46/) - next →: [Too many details, too few, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/450-too-many-details-too-few/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/)