--- title: When he finally does, Jory says, «Boss, your nan makes the best chip… — Hiding it from friends: being skint at school · tree and pragmatics description: When he finally does, Jory says, «Boss, your nan makes the best chips» («boss» is Scouse for great). Who acts: Reece, Jory, nan, boss. 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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 (Reece, Jory, nan, boss), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school.lesson:8 # text = When he finally does, Jory says, «Boss, your nan makes the best chips» («boss» is Scouse for great). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 finally finally ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 Jory Jory PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 vocative _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:vocative 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 nan nan NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 amod _ _ 17 chips chip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 Scouse scouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nmod 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 28 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | Reece | | | | | finally *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Jory | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **make** *in a quote* | present | your nan | the best chips | | | | Boss *vocative* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | boss | Scouse | | | | for great | 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:489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school.lesson:8`. **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, R7-rel-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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