--- title: In the West Country "my lover" is a friendly greeting to anyone, lik… — Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teac… · tree and pragmatics description: In the West Country "my lover" is a friendly greeting to anyone, like "love" or "mate", and "proper job" means well done or great. Who acts: lover, proper job. 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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 (lover, proper job), 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:18 # text = In the West Country "my lover" is a friendly greeting to anyone, like "love" or "mate", and "proper job" means well done or great. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Country Country PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 6 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 lover lover NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 greeting greeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 parataxis _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 27 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 31 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 32 advmod _ _ 32 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:ccomp 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | my lover | a friendly greeting | | the West Country | | to anyone | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | proper job | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | participle | proper job *not said here* | | | | | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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:language:016-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher.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 ×1, 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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