--- title: Rhyming slang is fun history; only some phrases are still common tod… — Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland · tree and pragmatics description: Rhyming slang is fun history; only some phrases are still common today. Who acts: Rhyming slang, phrases. A sentence of the lesson «Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland/11/) [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/) / [Accents and dialects of Britain and Ir…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland/) / 11 # Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland, sentence 11 Rhyming slang is fun history; only some phrases are still common today. **Who acts:** Rhyming slang, phrases · **What happens:** rhyme, be · **To what, where:** fun history This is a sentence of the lesson «Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland» 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 (Rhyming slang, phrases), 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:11 # text = Rhyming slang is fun history; only some phrases are still common today. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Rhyming rhyme VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:_ 2 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 fun fun ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 7 only only ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 8 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 9 phrases phrase NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 still still ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 13 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rhyme** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | Rhyming slang | fun history | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | some phrases | | | | still; today | common *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:018-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland.lesson:11`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Accents and dialects of Britain and Ir…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland/10/) - next →: [Accents and dialects of Britain and Ir…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland/)