--- title: Slang here: "tamping" (Wales) means very cross; "bare" (London) mean… — Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r… · tree and pragmatics description: Slang here: "tamping" (Wales) means very cross; "bare" (London) means lots of; "yeah nah" (Australia) means no; "yinz" (Pittsburgh) means you all; "howay" (North East England) means come on; "proper job" (West Country) means great; "chur" (New Zealand) means thanks or cool; "eh up" (Yorkshire) is a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/2-funny-french-sounds-nasal-vowels-the-french-r-and-u/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/) / [Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/2-funny-french-sounds-nasal-vowels-the-french-r-and-u/) / 18 # Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u, sentence 18 Slang here: "tamping" (Wales) means very cross; "bare" (London) means lots of; "yeah nah" (Australia) means no; "yinz" (Pittsburgh) means you all; "howay" (North East England) means come on; "proper job" (West Country) means great; "chur" (New Zealand) means thanks or cool; "eh up" (Yorkshire) is a way of saying hey. **Who acts:** tamping, bare, yinz, East England, proper job, New Zealand · **What happens:** mean, come on, be, say · **To what, where:** cross, lots, you, chur, thanks, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u» of the french 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 (tamping, bare, yinz, East England), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:002-funny-french-sounds-nasal-vowels-the-french-r-and-u.lesson:18 # text = Slang here: "tamping" (Wales) means very cross; "bare" (London) means lots of; "yeah nah" (Australia) means no; "yinz" (Pittsburgh) means you all; "howay" (North East England) means come on; "proper job" (West Country) means great; "chur" (New Zealand) means thanks or cool; "eh up" (Yorkshire) is a way of saying hey. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 002-funny-french-sounds-nasal-vowels-the-french-r-and-u.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 parataxis _ _ 2 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 1 advmod _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 tamping tamping NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 11 very very ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 cross cross ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:xcomp 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:ccomp 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 18 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 20 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 of of SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 25 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 26 discourse _ _ 26 nah nah INTJ UH _ 31 discourse _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 29 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 31 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl:relcl _ _ 32 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 35 det _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 35 yinz yinz NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 37 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 38 Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 40 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 41 nmod:unmarked _ _ 43 ; ; PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 " " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ _ 45 howay howay NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 ccomp _ _ 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ _ 47 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 50 punct _ _ 48 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 49 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 51 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 50 punct _ _ 52 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 53 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 52 ccomp _ _ 54 on on ADP RP _ 53 compound:prt _ _ 55 ; ; PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 56 " " PUNCT `` _ 58 punct _ _ 57 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 amod _ _ 58 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 nsubj _ _ 59 " " PUNCT '' _ 58 punct _ _ 60 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 62 punct _ _ 61 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 62 compound _ _ 62 Country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 appos _ _ 63 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 62 punct _ _ 64 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 65 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 64 xcomp _ _ 66 ; ; PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 67 " " PUNCT `` _ 68 punct _ _ 68 chur chur NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 obj _ _ 69 " " PUNCT '' _ 68 punct _ _ 70 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 72 punct _ _ 71 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 72 compound _ _ 72 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 74 nsubj _ _ 73 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 72 punct _ _ 74 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 64 parataxis _ _ 75 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 74 obj _ _ 76 or or CCONJ CC _ 77 cc _ _ 77 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 75 conj _ _ 78 ; ; PUNCT , _ 80 punct _ _ 79 " " PUNCT '' _ 80 punct _ _ 80 eh eh NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 81 up up ADP RP _ 80 compound:prt _ _ 82 " " PUNCT '' _ 81 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=80:punct 83 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 84 punct _ _ 84 Yorkshire Yorkshire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 88 nsubj _ _ 85 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 84 punct _ _ 86 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 88 cop _ _ 87 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 88 det _ _ 88 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 ccomp _ _ 89 of of SCONJ IN _ 90 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=90:case 90 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 88 acl _ _ 91 hey hey INTJ UH _ 90 discourse _ _ 92 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | tamping | cross | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | present | bare | lots | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | bare *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | present | no yinz | you | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | | 5 | **mean** | present | East England | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **come on** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **mean** | present | proper job | chur | | | | great *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chur=Topic | | 8 | **mean** | present | New Zealand | thanks | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic | | 9 | **is a** | present | Yorkshire | a way | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a way *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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:french:002-funny-french-sounds-nasal-vowels-the-french-r-and-u.lesson:18`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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. 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