--- title: Filler words like um, like and you know are fine in casual talk; in… — Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teac… · tree and pragmatics description: Filler words like um, like and you know are fine in casual talk; in formal talk, clear examples sound more confident. Who acts: you, Filler words, clear examples. 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 d --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher, sentence 17 Filler words like um, like and you know are fine in casual talk; in formal talk, clear examples sound more confident. **Who acts:** you, Filler words, clear examples · **What happens:** know, be, sound · **To what, where:** casual talk, formal talk 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 (you, Filler words, clear examples), 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:17 # text = Filler words like um, like and you know are fine in casual talk; in formal talk, clear examples sound more confident. # 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): no change 1 Filler filler NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 um um NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 like like INTJ UH _ 9 discourse _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 casual casual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 formal formal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 examples example NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 sound sound VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 23 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ _ 24 confident confident ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** | present | Filler words like um | | | casual talk | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **sound** | present | clear examples | | | formal talk | | confident *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in talk=Location | 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:language:016-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher.lesson:17`. **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. 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