--- title: Take a trip: in Liverpool something great is "boss, la", in Newcastl… — Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland · tree and pragmatics description: Take a trip: in Liverpool something great is "boss, la", in Newcastle "howay, it's canny good" means come on, this is really good, in Aberdeen "Fit like?" means how are you, and in Dublin a night of "great craic" was great fun. Who acts: you, trip, something, this. 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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 (you, trip, something, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:018-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland.lesson:1 # text = Take a trip: in Liverpool something great is "boss, la", in Newcastle "howay, it's canny good" means come on, this is really good, in Aberdeen "Fit like?" means how are you, and in Dublin a night of "great craic" was great fun. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 018-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 Liverpool Liverpool PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 26 nsubj _ _ 8 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:unmarked _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 la la NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Newcastle Newcastle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 19 howay howay NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 canny canny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 acl:relcl _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 27 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:conj 28 on on ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 really really ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Aberdeen Aberdeen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 38 Fit Fit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 flat _ _ 39 like like INTJ UH _ 36 discourse _ _ 40 ? ? PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 42 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 parataxis _ _ 43 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 45 advmod _ _ 44 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 45 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 48 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 Dublin Dublin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl:unmarked _ _ 52 of of ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 53 " " PUNCT `` _ 55 punct _ _ 54 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 55 craic craic NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=59:nsubj 56 " " PUNCT '' _ 55 punct _ _ 57 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 59 cop _ _ 58 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 amod _ _ 59 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nmod _ _ 60 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | a trip | | Dublin | night | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent trip=Value in dublin=Location | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | boss | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | trip | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | something | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **come on** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | this | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **mean** | present | Aberdeen | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is a** | present | | you | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **is** | past | | | | | | of great fun | 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:018-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, 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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