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title: «Grand» is Irish for fine, «sweet as» is New Zealand slang for great… — Living in a children's home · tree and pragmatics
description: «Grand» is Irish for fine, «sweet as» is New Zealand slang for great, and «stoked» means thrilled. Who acts: Grand. A sentence of the lesson «Living in a children's home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Living in a children's home, sentence 49

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«Grand» is Irish for fine, «sweet as» is New Zealand slang for great, and «stoked» means thrilled.

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**Who acts:** Grand · **What happens:** be, stoke, mean · **To what, where:** Irish Zealand slang · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Living in a children's home» 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 (Grand), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:520-living-in-a-childrens-home.lesson:49
# text = «Grand» is Irish for fine, «sweet as» is New Zealand slang for great, and «stoked» means thrilled.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 520-living-in-a-childrens-home.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Grand	Grand	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	16	nsubj	_	_
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
5	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	stoked	stoke	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	parataxis	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
24	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
25	thrilled	thrilled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | Grand | Irish Zealand slang |  |  |  | for great | tree rules |
| 2 | **stoke** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | thrilled *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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:520-living-in-a-childrens-home.lesson:49`.

**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): R6-punct-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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