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title: «It's pure dead brilliant, Dad!» (Glasgow for really brilliant.) Her… — Money is tight: free school meals and second-han… · tree and pragmatics
description: «It's pure dead brilliant, Dad!» (Glasgow for really brilliant.) Her friend Aimee sniffs, «Whit, a charity shop?» («Whit» is Scots for what.) A good find is a good find, and Aimee's sniff says more about Aimee than the dress. Who acts: dress, friend, Whit, good find. A sentence of the lesson «Money 
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# Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform, sentence 7

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«It's pure dead brilliant, Dad!» (Glasgow for really brilliant.) Her friend Aimee sniffs, «Whit, a charity shop?» («Whit» is Scots for what.) A good find is a good find, and Aimee's sniff says more about Aimee than the dress.

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**Who acts:** dress, friend, Whit, good find, sniff, Aimee · **What happens:** be, sniff, say · **To what, where:** Scots, good find, more · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (dress, friend, Whit, good find), 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:7
# text = «It's pure dead brilliant, Dad!» (Glasgow for really brilliant.) Her friend Aimee sniffs, «Whit, a charity shop?» («Whit» is Scots for what.) A good find is a good find, and Aimee's sniff says more about Aimee than the dress.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	parataxis	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:vocative|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	really	really	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
18	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	Aimee	Aimee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
21	sniffs	sniff	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	parataxis	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Whit	whit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	charity	charity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct
32	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Whit	whit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
34	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	Scots	Scot	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	parataxis	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	_
40	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
41	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	find	find	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
44	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	find	find	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	conj	_	_
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
50	Aimee	Aimee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	nmod:poss	_	_
51	's	's	PART	POS	_	50	case	_	_
52	sniff	sniff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
53	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
54	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	53	obj	_	_
55	about	about	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	Aimee	Aimee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=53:obl
57	than	than	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	53	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | dress |  |  |  |  | Dad *vocative*; brilliant *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sniff** | present | Glasgow's friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Whit | Scots |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | a good find | a good find |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Aimee's sniff | more |  |  |  | than the dress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic |
| 6 | **sniff** |  | Aimee |  |  |  |  |  | nom sniff «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform.lesson:7`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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