--- title: Lily's dad and Pete fish for six hours and say about nine words: «Be… — Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work · tree and pragmatics description: Lily's dad and Pete fish for six hours and say about nine words: «Best day of my week, that.» And when Maddie's mum's friend Donna visits from Newcastle, they're soon talking pure Geordie: «Howay man, divvent be daft, that gadgie was mental» («come on, don't be silly, that bloke was mad»). 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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 (dad, that, friend, words), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work.lesson:26 # text = Lily's dad and Pete fish for six hours and say about nine words: «Best day of my week, that.» And when Maddie's mum's friend Donna visits from Newcastle, they're soon talking pure Geordie: «Howay man, divvent be daft, that gadgie was mental» («come on, don't be silly, that bloke was mad»). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 Pete Pete PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 fish fish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 about about ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obl 15 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 17 Best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 18 amod _ _ 18 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 23 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 nsubj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 26 And and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 27 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 28 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 Donna Donna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 34 visits visit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 advcl _ _ 35 from from ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Newcastle Newcastle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:nmod 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 39 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 41 advmod _ _ 41 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 42 pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 Geordie geordie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=41:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 44 : : PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 45 « « PUNCT `` _ 51 punct _ _ 46 Howay howay INTJ UH _ 47 discourse _ _ 47 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 vocative _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 49 divvent divvent X NN _ 45 flat _ _ 50 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 51 cop _ _ 51 daft daft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 conj _ _ 52 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 53 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 54 det _ _ 54 gadgie gadgie NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ _ 55 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 57 cop _ _ 56 mental mental ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 57 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 appos _ _ 58 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 60 punct _ _ 59 « « PUNCT `` _ 60 punct _ _ 60 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 57 conj _ _ 61 on on ADV RB _ 60 advmod _ _ 62 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 63 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 conj _ _ 64 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 66 advmod _ _ 65 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 66 cop _ _ 66 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 63 xcomp _ _ 67 , , PUNCT , _ 72 punct _ _ 68 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 69 det _ _ 69 bloke bloke NOUN NN Number=Sing 72 nsubj _ _ 70 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 72 cop _ _ 71 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 72 amod _ _ 72 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 parataxis _ _ 73 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 72 punct _ _ 74 . . 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 | **fish** | present | Lily's dad and Pete | | | | hour | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Lily's dad and Pete *not said here* | nine words | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 3 | **day** *in a quote* | | that | | | | week | | tree rules | | 4 | **visit** | present | Maddie's mum's friend | | | Newcastle | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **talk** | present · progressive | words *= word* | pure Geordie | | | | soon *property* | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent geordie=Patient | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | words *= word* *not said here* | | | | | man *vocative*; daft *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **is a** | past | that gadgie | mental » | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **come on** *in a quote* | infinitive | that gadgie *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | words *= word* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | words *= word* *not said here* | | | | | silly *property* | tree rules | | 11 | **is a** | past | that bloke | mad » | | | | | 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:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work.lesson:26`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. 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