--- title: In Kirkcaldy, Granny takes Islay to the chippy and whispers, «Dinnae… — The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad · tree and pragmatics description: In Kirkcaldy, Granny takes Islay to the chippy and whispers, «Dinnae tell yer mam we had chips again» (Scots for don't tell your mum). Who acts: Granny, we, mum. 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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 (Granny, we, mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad.lesson:24 # text = In Kirkcaldy, Granny takes Islay to the chippy and whispers, «Dinnae tell yer mam we had chips again» (Scots for don't tell your mum). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Kirkcaldy Kirkcaldy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Granny Granny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Islay islay PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 chippy chippy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 whispers whisper VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 14 Dinnae not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 16 yer your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 mam mam NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 20 chips chip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 again again ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Scots Scot PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 15 parataxis _ _ 25 for for SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 29 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present | Granny | Islay | | Kirkcaldy | | to the chippy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent islay=Theme to chippy=Destination | | 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | present | Granny *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | Granny *not said here* | yer's mam | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent mam=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | past | we | chips | | | again | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chip=Patient | | 5 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive · do-support | your mum | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. 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