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title: In Australian talk «yeah nah» means no and «nah yeah» means yes. — Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row no… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Australian talk «yeah nah» means no and «nah yeah» means yes. A sentence of the lesson «Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains, sentence 31

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In Australian talk «yeah nah» means no and «nah yeah» means yes.

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**What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** no

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains.lesson:31
# text = In Australian talk «yeah nah» means no and «nah yeah» means yes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains.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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
5	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	no	no	PRON	DT	PronType=Neg	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	15	nsubj	_	_
13	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **mean** | present |  | no |  |  |  | in Australian talk | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot no=Theme in talk=Attribute |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yes=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:511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains.lesson:31`.

**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): no change. **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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