--- title: In Liverpool «la» means lad; in Ireland «craic» means fun or news; i… — The new kid and the first day · tree and pragmatics description: In Liverpool «la» means lad; in Ireland «craic» means fun or news; in Australia «Pom» means an English person; «ta» is British for thanks. Who acts: la, craic, Pom, ta. 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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 (la, craic, Pom, ta), 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:38 # text = In Liverpool «la» means lad; in Ireland «craic» means fun or news; in Australia «Pom» means an English person; «ta» is British for thanks. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Liverpool Liverpool PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 4 la la X GW _ 6 nsubj _ _ 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 12 craic craic X GW _ 14 nsubj _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Pom pom NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 24 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 25 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 « « PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 30 ta ta X GW _ 33 nsubj _ _ 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 34 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | la | lad | | | | in Liverpool | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot lad=Theme in liverpool=Attribute | | 2 | **mean** | present | craic | fun or news | | | | in Ireland | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot fun=Theme in ireland=Attribute | | 3 | **mean** | present | Pom | a English person | | | | in Australia | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot person=Theme in australia=Attribute | | 4 | **is** | present | ta | | | | | for thanks; british *property* | 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:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day.lesson:38`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-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: [The new kid and the first day, 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day/37/) - next →: [Joining a game, and the shy kid, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day/)