--- title: In Newcastle «howay» means «come on» and «pet» is a friendly word li… — Sleepovers and inside jokes · tree and pragmatics description: In Newcastle «howay» means «come on» and «pet» is a friendly word like «love»; in the Midlands and the North «mardy» means grumpy or sulky. Who acts: howay, pet, mardy. 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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 (howay, pet, mardy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes.lesson:39 # text = In Newcastle «howay» means «come on» and «pet» is a friendly word like «love»; in the Midlands and the North «mardy» means grumpy or sulky. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes.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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Newcastle Newcastle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 howay howay NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:xcomp 9 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obl 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Midlands Midlands PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 33 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 30 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 31 mardy mardy NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 34 grumpy grumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 sulky sulky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | howay | | | Newcastle | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | pet | a friendly word | | | | like love | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | mardy | | | | | in the Midlands and the North; grumpy *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in midlands=Attribute | 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:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes.lesson:39`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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: [Sleepovers and inside jokes, 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/38/) - next →: [The best friend who moves away, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/)