--- title: «Banter» is British for jokey teasing; in Scotland «pure sound» mean… — Nice alone, mean in a group · tree and pragmatics description: «Banter» is British for jokey teasing; in Scotland «pure sound» means really nice, a «nippy sweetie» is a sharp-tongued person, and «ken» means «you know». Who acts: Banter, pure sound, nippy sweetie, ken. 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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 (Banter, pure sound, nippy sweetie, ken), 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:35 # text = «Banter» is British for jokey teasing; in Scotland «pure sound» means really nice, a «nippy sweetie» is a sharp-tongued person, and «ken» means «you know». # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Banter Banter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 jokey jokey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 teasing teasing NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 13 pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 17 really really ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:det 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 22 nippy nippy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 sweetie sweetie NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 27 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:amod 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 29 tongued tongue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 « « PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 34 ken ken NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 36 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 37 « « PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 ccomp _ _ 40 » » PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Banter | | | | | for jokey teasing; british *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | pure sound | nice | | | | in Scotland | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot nice=Theme in scotland=Attribute | | 3 | **is a** | present | a nippy sweetie | a tongued person | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | ken | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **know** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:35`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. 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