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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 (Informal talk, Welsh nan, Country gran, London lad), 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:6 # text = Informal talk is full of local warmth: a Welsh nan wants a cwtch (a hug), a West Country gran calls everyone "my lover", a London lad greets his mate with "Wagwan, fam!"; switching between styles is a skill, not being fake. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Informal informal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 warmth warmth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Welsh welsh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 nan nan NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 cwtch cwtch NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 hug hug NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det 21 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:compound 22 Country Country PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 23 gran gran NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 25 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 24 obj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 27 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 lover lover NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 xcomp _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 greets greet VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 " " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 39 Wagwan Wagwan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:nmod 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 fam fam NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 appos _ _ 42 ! ! PUNCT . _ 41 punct _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 44 ; ; PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 45 switching switch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 50 csubj _ _ 46 between between ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 styles style NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obl _ _ 48 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 cop _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 51 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 52 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 54 advmod _ _ 53 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 54 cop _ _ 54 fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 appos _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed form=decl, act=evaluate, polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Informal talk | | | | | of local warmth; full *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **want** | present | a Welsh nan | a cwtch | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cwtch=Theme | | 3 | **call** | present | a Country gran | | everyone | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient | | 4 | **greet** *speech: greet* | present | a London lad | lad's mate | | | | with Wagwan | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Theme | | 5 | **switch** | gerund | | | | | | between styles | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **is a** | present | switching | a skill | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **is** | gerund | | | | | | fake *property* | tree rules | 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:6`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Formal and informal: a mate versus the…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/16-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher/5/) - next →: [Formal and informal: a mate versus the…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/16-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/16-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher/)