--- title: Hamish in Aberdeen tells his wee sister: «Dinnae just say what happe… — Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Hamish in Aberdeen tells his wee sister: «Dinnae just say what happened, say why, ken» (dinnae means don't, wee means little). Who acts: Hamish, dinnae, wee. 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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 (Hamish, dinnae, wee), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:086-olympiad-cause-and-effect-chains.lesson:8 # text = Hamish in Aberdeen tells his wee sister: «Dinnae just say what happened, say why, ken» (dinnae means don't, wee means little). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 086-olympiad-cause-and-effect-chains.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Hamish Hamish PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Aberdeen Aberdeen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 wee wee ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 10 Dinnae not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 11 just just ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 nsubj _ _ 14 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 17 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 ken ken VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 22 dinnae dinnae NOUN FW Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 24 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 25 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:advmod 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 27 wee wee ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:amod 28 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 29 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Hamish in Aberdeen | | Hamish's wee sister | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **happen** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **ken** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **mean** | present | dinnae | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **mean** | present · do-support | wee | little | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Topic | 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:history:086-olympiad-cause-and-effect-chains.lesson:8`. **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, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/86-olympiad-cause-and-effect-chains/7/) - next →: [Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/86-olympiad-cause-and-effect-chains/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/86-olympiad-cause-and-effect-chains/)