--- title: Chloe, new from Belfast, gets asked «why d'you talk funny?» «Cos I'm… — The new kid and the first day · tree and pragmatics description: Chloe, new from Belfast, gets asked «why d'you talk funny?» «Cos I'm Irish, so I am,» she says, and within a week she's teaching them «what's the craic?» — Irish for «what's going on?». Who acts: Chloe. 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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 (Chloe), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day.lesson:17 # text = Chloe, new from Belfast, gets asked «why d'you talk funny?» «Cos I'm Irish, so I am,» she says, and within a week she's teaching them «what's the craic?» — Irish for «what's going on?». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Chloe Chloe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Belfast belfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 gets get AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 10 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 11 d'you d'you X FW Foreign=Yes 12 dep _ _ 12 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 13 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 17 Cos cos SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 Irish Irish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 ccomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advmod 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nsubj 24 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 29 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 31 within within ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 34 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 teaching teach VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 « « PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ _ 39 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 42 nsubj _ _ 40 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 craic craic NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 43 ? ? PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ _ 44 » » PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 45 — - PUNCT : _ 46 punct _ _ 46 Irish Irish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 47 for for SCONJ IN _ 51 mark _ _ 48 « « PUNCT `` _ 51 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=51:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 49 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 51 nsubj _ _ 50 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 51 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 46 advcl _ _ 52 on on ADP RP _ 51 compound:prt _ _ 53 ? ? PUNCT . _ 51 punct _ _ 54 » » PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · passive | | Chloe | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **talk** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | funny *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Chloe | | | | | irish *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** *speech: assert* | present | Chloe | | | | | say *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **teach** *speech: other* | present · progressive | Chloe | | words *= word* | | week | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | the craic | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **go on** *in a quote* | present · progressive | | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day.lesson:17`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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: [The new kid and the first day, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day/13/) - next →: [The new kid and the first day, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day/)