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title: «Howay» is Geordie for come on; «drip» means stylish clothes; «caria… — Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row no… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Howay» is Geordie for come on; «drip» means stylish clothes; «cariad» is Welsh for darling; «Mashallah» is said to admire something good; Hogmanay is Scottish New Year; a «barbie» is an Aussie barbecue. Who acts: Howay, cariad », Hogmanay, barbie ». A sentence of the lesson «Family parties, aunts a
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# Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains, sentence 36

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«Howay» is Geordie for come on; «drip» means stylish clothes; «cariad» is Welsh for darling; «Mashallah» is said to admire something good; Hogmanay is Scottish New Year; a «barbie» is an Aussie barbecue.

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**Who acts:** Howay, cariad », Hogmanay, barbie » · **What happens:** be, mean, say, admire · **To what, where:** Geordie, stylish clothes, Mashallah, something, Scottish New Year, Aussie barbecue · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (Howay, cariad », Hogmanay, barbie »), 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:36
# text = «Howay» is Geordie for come on; «drip» means stylish clothes; «cariad» is Welsh for darling; «Mashallah» is said to admire something good; Hogmanay is Scottish New Year; a «barbie» is an Aussie barbecue.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Howay	Howay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Geordie	geordie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:case
7	come	come	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	drip	drip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	stylish	stylish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	13	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
18	cariad	cariad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	darling	darling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Mashallah	Mashallah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	»	»	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	admire	admire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	31	obj	_	_
33	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
35	Hogmanay	hogmanay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=39:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
37	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
40	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=44:det
42	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=44:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
43	barbie	barbie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
45	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
46	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	Aussie	aussie	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=48:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
48	barbecue	barbecue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Howay | Geordie |  |  |  | come on drip *nmod* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  | stylish clothes |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present | cariad » |  |  |  |  | for darling; welsh *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | Mashallah |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **admire** | to-infinitive |  | something |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is a** | present | Hogmanay | Scottish New Year |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is a** | present | barbie » | a Aussie barbecue |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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