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title: Words in this lesson: «mid» means boring, «eh» ends a sentence in Ca… — Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Words in this lesson: «mid» means boring, «eh» ends a sentence in Canada, «loaded» means very rich, «eejit» (Ireland) means idiot, «wee» (Scotland, Ireland) means small, «mate» means friend. Who acts: mid, eh, wee, small mate. A sentence of the lesson «Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids a
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# Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours, sentence 39

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Words in this lesson: «mid» means boring, «eh» ends a sentence in Canada, «loaded» means very rich, «eejit» (Ireland) means idiot, «wee» (Scotland, Ireland) means small, «mate» means friend.

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**Who acts:** mid, eh, wee, small mate · **What happens:** mean, end, load, eejit · **To what, where:** sentence, Canada, idiot, friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours» 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 (mid, eh, wee, small mate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours.lesson:39
# text = Words in this lesson: «mid» means boring, «eh» ends a sentence in Canada, «loaded» means very rich, «eejit» (Ireland) means idiot, «wee» (Scotland, Ireland) means small, «mate» means friend.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	dep	_	_
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	:	_	1	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
7	mid	mid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	boring	boring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	loaded	load	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	nsubj	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
29	eejit	eejit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	nsubj	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
34	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
35	idiot	idiot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	_
38	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	nsubj	_	_
39	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
40	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	41	punct	_	_
41	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod:unmarked	_	_
44	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	41	punct	_	_
45	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
46	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
48	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	_
49	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=45:obj
50	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	49	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=51:punct
51	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	parataxis	_	_
52	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | mid |  |  |  |  | boring *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **end** | present | eh | a sentence |  | Canada |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality sentence=Eventuality |
| 3 | **load** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **eejit** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **mean** | present |  | idiot |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idiot=Topic |
| 7 | **mean** | present | wee |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **mean** | present | small mate | friend |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic |

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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:492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours.lesson:39`.

**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, 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.

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

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