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title: «Butt» is South Wales for mate, «fit» means outfit, «no cap» means f… — The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing you… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Butt» is South Wales for mate, «fit» means outfit, «no cap» means for real, «braw» is Scots for lovely, «wee yin» means little one, «howay» is Geordie for come on, «skint» means having no money, and in South Africa «now now» means soon. Who acts: «, », cap, » South Wales. A sentence of the lesson «
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# The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff, sentence 43

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«Butt» is South Wales for mate, «fit» means outfit, «no cap» means for real, «braw» is Scots for lovely, «wee yin» means little one, «howay» is Geordie for come on, «skint» means having no money, and in South Africa «now now» means soon.

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**Who acts:** «, », cap, » South Wales, » Scots · **What happens:** be, fit, mean, have · **To what, where:** » South Wales, outfit, » Scots, little one, » Geordie, money

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff» 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 («, », cap, » South Wales), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff.lesson:43
# text = «Butt» is South Wales for mate, «fit» means outfit, «no cap» means for real, «braw» is Scots for lovely, «wee yin» means little one, «howay» is Geordie for come on, «skint» means having no money, and in South Africa «now now» means soon.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×5, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	«	«	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Butt	butt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Wales	wale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	«	«	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	fit	fit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	»	»	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
14	outfit	outfit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
20	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
25	braw	braw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	Scots	Scot	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	«	«	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
34	yin	yin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
35	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
36	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
37	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=65:nsubj:outer
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=44:punct
41	howay	howay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
43	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
44	Geordie	geordie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=46:case
46	come	come	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
47	on	on	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	50	punct	_	_
50	skint	skint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	acl:relcl	_	_
51	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	50	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=52:punct
52	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	conj	_	_
53	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	52	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=52:ccomp
54	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	55	det	_	_
55	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	_
60	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	65	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=50:parataxis
61	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	60	punct	_	_
62	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	65	advmod	_	_
63	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	65	advmod	_	_
64	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	65	punct	_	_
65	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	parataxis	_	_
66	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	65	advmod	_	_
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36: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 a** | present |  | » South Wales |  |  |  | for mate | tree rules |
| 2 | **fit** *in a quote* | past | « |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present | » | outfit |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outfit=Topic |
| 4 | **mean** | present | no cap |  |  |  |  | for real | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for real=Attribute |
| 5 | **is a** | present | » South Wales | » Scots |  |  |  | for lovely yin | tree rules |
| 6 | **mean** | present | » Scots | little one and » Geordie |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
| 7 | **is a** | present | » Scots *not said here* | » Geordie |  |  |  | come *nmod* | tree rules |
| 8 | **mean** | present | » Scots *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **have** *not said to happen* | gerund | » Scots *not said here* | no money |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 10 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  | now; now | in South Africa; soon *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in africa=Attribute |

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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:500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff.lesson:43`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×5, R7-rel-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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