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title: «Y'all» is Southern US for «you all»; «eejit» is Irish for idiot; «s… — Feuds between families · tree and pragmatics
description: «Y'all» is Southern US for «you all»; «eejit» is Irish for idiot; «sure» at the start of an Irish sentence just means «well». Who acts: Y'all, eejit, sure. A sentence of the lesson «Feuds between families» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Feuds between families, sentence 34

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«Y'all» is Southern US for «you all»; «eejit» is Irish for idiot; «sure» at the start of an Irish sentence just means «well».

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**Who acts:** Y'all, eejit, sure · **What happens:** be, mean, start · **To what, where:** Southern US, start, Irish sentence

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Feuds between families» 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 (Y'all, eejit, sure), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:474-feuds-between-families.lesson:34
# text = «Y'all» is Southern US for «you all»; «eejit» is Irish for idiot; «sure» at the start of an Irish sentence just means «well».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 474-feuds-between-families.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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Y'all	Y'all	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP:Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	Southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	eejit	eejit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	idiot	idiot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	nsubj	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	just	just	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
33	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
34	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	obj	_	_
35	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Y'all | Southern US |  |  |  | for you | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | eejit |  |  |  |  | for idiot; irish *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present | sure |  |  | the start of a Irish sentence |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent well=Topic |
| 4 | **start** |  |  | a Irish sentence |  |  |  |  | nom start «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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:474-feuds-between-families.lesson:34`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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/).

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