--- title: «Like» at the end of a sentence (Scotland, North England) softens it… — Too many details, too few · tree and pragmatics description: «Like» at the end of a sentence (Scotland, North England) softens it; «pants» in Britain are underpants; «mint» (UK) means great; a «bloke» is a man. Who acts: pants, mint, bloke. 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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 (pants, mint, bloke), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:450-too-many-details-too-few.lesson:47 # text = «Like» at the end of a sentence (Scotland, North England) softens it; «pants» in Britain are underpants; «mint» (UK) means great; a «bloke» is a man. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 450-too-many-details-too-few.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 ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 2 Like like ADP IN _ 16 obl _ _ 3 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 11 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:unmarked _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 16 softens soften VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 pants pants NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 25 nsubj _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 underpants underpant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 parataxis _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 mint mint NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 29 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 31 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 33 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 34 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:det 37 « « PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 38 bloke bloke NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 39 » » PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 parataxis _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **soften** | present | | sentence | | | at the end of a sentence | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | pants | underpants | | Britain | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | mint | | | | | great *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | a bloke | a man | | | | | 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:450-too-many-details-too-few.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Too many details, too few, 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/450-too-many-details-too-few/46/) - next →: [The check that settles it, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/451-the-check-that-settles-it/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/450-too-many-details-too-few/)