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title: «Yinz better be ready by nine» («yinz» means you all, in Pittsburgh). — Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt · tree and pragmatics
description: «Yinz better be ready by nine» («yinz» means you all, in Pittsburgh). Who acts: Yinz. A sentence of the lesson «Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt, sentence 40

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«Yinz better be ready by nine» («yinz» means you all, in Pittsburgh).

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**Who acts:** Yinz · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt» 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 (Yinz), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt.lesson:40
# text = «Yinz better be ready by nine» («yinz» means you all, in Pittsburgh).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt.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	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	Yinz	Yinz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	yinz	yinz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nmod:unmarked	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=request, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | Yinz |  |  |  |  | by nine; ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | yinz | you |  |  |  | in Pittsburgh | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot you=Theme in pittsburgh=Attribute |

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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:523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt.lesson:40`.

**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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