---
title: In Welsh English a cwtch is a hug or cuddle (from Welsh), and in Sou… — Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teac… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Welsh English a cwtch is a hug or cuddle (from Welsh), and in South Wales "tamping" means really annoyed. Who acts: cwtch. A sentence of the lesson «Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/16-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher/14/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Formal and informal: a mate versus the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/16-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher/) / 14

# Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher, sentence 14

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In Welsh English a cwtch is a hug or cuddle (from Welsh), and in South Wales "tamping" means really annoyed.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** cwtch · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** hug, Welsh

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher» of the language 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 (cwtch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:016-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher.lesson:14
# text = In Welsh English a cwtch is a hug or cuddle (from Welsh), and in South Wales "tamping" means really annoyed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 016-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Welsh	Welsh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cwtch	cwtch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hug	hug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	cuddle	cuddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Welsh	Welsh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	tamping	tamping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
23	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	really	really	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:ccomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a cwtch | a hug or cuddle |  | Welsh |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | a cwtch *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in South Wales and tamping; annoyed *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in wales=Attribute |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:language:016-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher.lesson:14`.

**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, R7-rel-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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Formal and informal: a mate versus the…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/16-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher/13/)
- next →: [Formal and informal: a mate versus the…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/16-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher/15/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/16-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher/)

