--- title: Words in this lesson: «canny» (North East England) means nice or goo… — Money is tight: free school meals and second-han… · tree and pragmatics description: Words in this lesson: «canny» (North East England) means nice or good, «whit» (Scotland) means what, «pure dead brilliant» (Glasgow) means really brilliant, «togs» (NZ, Australia) are a swimming costume, «can't swing it» means can't afford it, «sus» means suspicious or dodgy, «skint» means out of mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform/35/) [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/) / [Money is tight: free school meals and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform/) / 35 # Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform, sentence 35 Words in this lesson: «canny» (North East England) means nice or good, «whit» (Scotland) means what, «pure dead brilliant» (Glasgow) means really brilliant, «togs» (NZ, Australia) are a swimming costume, «can't swing it» means can't afford it, «sus» means suspicious or dodgy, «skint» means out of money, «wee» means small, «yeah nah» means no, «sweet as» means fine. **Who acts:** East England, whit », Glasgow, togs, sus, wee · **What happens:** mean, be, not swing, not afford · **To what, where:** canny », dead brilliant », swimming costume, », money · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform» 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 (East England, whit », Glasgow, togs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform.lesson:35 # text = Words in this lesson: «canny» (North East England) means nice or good, «whit» (Scotland) means what, «pure dead brilliant» (Glasgow) means really brilliant, «togs» (NZ, Australia) are a swimming costume, «can't swing it» means can't afford it, «sus» means suspicious or dodgy, «skint» means out of money, «wee» means small, «yeah nah» means no, «sweet as» means fine. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform.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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×6, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 lesson lesson NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 7 canny canny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 » » NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 10 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:amod 11 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 14 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 15 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 20 whit whit NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 23 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 25 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 26 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 25 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:ccomp 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 29 pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:amod 30 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 brilliant brilliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 34 Glasgow Glasgow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 36 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 37 really really ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 brilliant brilliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:amod 39 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 40 « « PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ _ 41 togs tog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 nsubj _ _ 42 » » PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ _ 43 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 44 punct _ _ 44 NZ NZ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 conj _ _ 47 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 44 punct _ _ 48 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 cop _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 50 swimming swimming NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 51 costume costume NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 ccomp _ _ 52 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 53 « « PUNCT `` _ 56 punct _ _ 54 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 56 aux _ _ 55 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 56 advmod _ _ 56 swing swing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 51 conj _ _ 57 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 obj _ _ 58 » » PUNCT '' _ 56 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=59:punct 59 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 56 ccomp _ _ 60 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 62 aux _ _ 61 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 62 advmod _ _ 62 afford afford VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 59 advcl _ _ 63 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 62 obj _ _ 64 , , PUNCT , _ 66 punct _ _ 65 « « PUNCT `` _ 66 punct _ _ 66 sus sus NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=62:obl 67 » » PUNCT '' _ 66 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=68:punct 68 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 59 parataxis _ _ 69 suspicious suspicious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 68 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=83:amod 70 or or CCONJ CC _ 71 cc _ _ 71 dodgy dodgy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 69 conj _ _ 72 , , PUNCT , _ 74 punct _ _ 73 « « PUNCT `` _ 74 punct _ _ 74 skint skint ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 69 conj _ _ 75 » » PUNCT '' _ 74 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=76:punct 76 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 74 ccomp _ _ 77 out out ADP IN _ 79 case _ _ 78 of of ADP IN _ 79 case _ _ 79 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 76 obl _ _ 80 , , PUNCT , _ 82 punct _ _ 81 « « PUNCT `` _ 82 punct _ _ 82 wee wee NOUN NN Number=Sing 84 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=69:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 83 » » NOUN NNS Number=Plur 84 nsubj _ _ 84 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 68 ccomp _ _ 85 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 84 xcomp _ _ 86 , , PUNCT , _ 91 punct _ _ 87 « « PUNCT `` _ 91 punct _ _ 88 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 89 discourse _ _ 89 nah nah INTJ UH _ 91 discourse _ _ 90 » » PUNCT '' _ 89 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=89:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 91 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 92 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 91 discourse _ _ 93 , , PUNCT , _ 95 punct _ _ 94 « « PUNCT `` _ 95 punct _ _ 95 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 96 as as SCONJ IN _ 98 mark _ _ 97 » » PUNCT '' _ 98 punct _ _ 98 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 95 advcl _ _ 99 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 98 xcomp _ _ 100 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=95: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 | East England | canny » *not said here* | | | | nice *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | whit » | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 3 | **mean** | present | Glasgow | dead brilliant » *not said here* | | | | brilliant *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent »=Topic | | 4 | **is a** | present | togs NZ and Australia | a swimming costume | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **swing** *in a quote* | can | togs NZ and Australia *not said here* | » | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **mean** | present | togs NZ and Australia *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **not** **afford** | can | togs NZ and Australia *not said here* | » | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **mean** | present | sus | | | | | suspicious *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **mean** | present | | | | money | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **mean** | present | wee | | | | | small *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 11 | **mean** | present | whit » *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 12 | **mean** | present | | | | | | fine *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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:487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform.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): R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×6, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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