--- title: «Och, he's a crabbit wee thing, dinnae take it tae heart, hen,» says… — The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets · tree and pragmatics description: «Och, he's a crabbit wee thing, dinnae take it tae heart, hen,» says her auntie — crabbit is Scots for grumpy, wee for small, dinnae for don't, and hen is a friendly «love». Who acts: Grandad, auntie, crabbit, hen. 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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 (Grandad, auntie, crabbit, hen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.lesson:15 # text = «Och, he's a crabbit wee thing, dinnae take it tae heart, hen,» says her auntie — crabbit is Scots for grumpy, wee for small, dinnae for don't, and hen is a friendly «love». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 2 Och Och INTJ UH Number=Sing 9 discourse _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 5 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 crabbit crabbit ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 wee wee ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 parataxis _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 dinnae dinnae PART RB Foreign=Yes|Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 tae tae ADP IN Foreign=Yes 15 case _ _ 15 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 vocative _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 20 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 auntie auntie NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 23 — - PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 24 crabbit crabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 Scots Scot PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 20 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:parataxis 27 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 grumpy grumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 30 wee wee ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 dinnae dinnae NOUN FW Foreign=Yes 26 conj _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 dep _ _ 37 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 40 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 43 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 44 « « PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ _ 45 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 46 » » PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Grandad | a crabbit wee thing | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | | thing | | | | tae heart; hen *vocative* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Bawheid's auntie | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **is a** | present | crabbit | Scots and dinnae and a friendly love | | | | for grumpy | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **do** | present | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | hen | a friendly love | | | | | 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:457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.lesson:15`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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