--- title: «Craic» is Irish for fun and chat, «prepone» is Indian English for m… — Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison · tree and pragmatics description: «Craic» is Irish for fun and chat, «prepone» is Indian English for move earlier, «servo» is Australian for petrol station, «sus» means dodgy, and «fixin' to» means about to. Who acts: Craic, prepone », servo », sus. 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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 (Craic, prepone », servo », sus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison.lesson:55 # text = «Craic» is Irish for fun and chat, «prepone» is Indian English for move earlier, «servo» is Australian for petrol station, «sus» means dodgy, and «fixin' to» means about to. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Craic Craic 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 Irish Irish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 chat chat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 12 prepone prepone NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 move move NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 19 earlier early ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 16 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 22 servo servo NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 Australian Australian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 petrol petrol NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 station station NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 30 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 31 sus sus NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=25:conj 34 dodgy dodgy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 « « PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 38 fixin fixin NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 39 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 38 fixed _ _ 41 » » PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 42 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 43 about about ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 42 xcomp _ _ 45 . . 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 | **is** | present | Craic | | | | | for fun and chat; irish *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | prepone » | Indian English | | | | early *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | servo » | | | | | for petrol station; australian *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | sus | | | | | dodgy *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mean** | present | fixin | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison.lesson:55`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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. 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