--- title: In Scots «pure sound» means really nice and a «nippy sweetie» is som… — Nice alone, mean in a group · tree and pragmatics description: In Scots «pure sound» means really nice and a «nippy sweetie» is someone sharp-tongued. Who acts: pure sound, « sweetie ». A sentence of the lesson «Nice alone, mean in a group» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Nice alone, mean in a group](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/) / 17 # Nice alone, mean in a group, sentence 17 In Scots «pure sound» means really nice and a «nippy sweetie» is someone sharp-tongued. **Who acts:** pure sound, « sweetie » · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** someone This is a sentence of the lesson «Nice alone, mean in a group» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pure sound, « sweetie »), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group.lesson:17 # text = In Scots «pure sound» means really nice and a «nippy sweetie» is someone sharp-tongued. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group.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 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Scots Scot PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:obl|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNPS:Number=Plur 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 4 pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 really really ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det 12 « « ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 13 nippy nippy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:amod 14 sweetie sweetie NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 conj _ _ 18 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 compound _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 20 tongued tongue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | pure sound | | | | | in Scots; nice *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in scot=Attribute | | 2 | **is a** | present | « sweetie » | someone | | | | | 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:468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group.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: [Nice alone, mean in a group, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/16/) - next →: [Nice alone, mean in a group, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/)