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title: "Tara-a-bit" means goodbye for now in Birmingham and the Black Count… — Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland · tree and pragmatics
description: "Tara-a-bit" means goodbye for now in Birmingham and the Black Country; "cheerio" is a goodbye heard across Britain. Who acts: Tara, cheerio. 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 pragma
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# Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland, sentence 12

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"Tara-a-bit" means goodbye for now in Birmingham and the Black Country; "cheerio" is a goodbye heard across Britain.

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**Who acts:** Tara, cheerio · **What happens:** mean, be, hear · **To what, where:** goodbye, Britain

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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 (Tara, cheerio), 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:12
# text = "Tara-a-bit" means goodbye for now in Birmingham and the Black Country; "cheerio" is a goodbye heard across Britain.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
2	Tara	tara	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Birmingham	Birmingham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:det|HaikuPos=DET:::Definite=Def|PronType=Art
16	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	_	17	compound	_	_
17	Country	Country	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	cheerio	cheerio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
25	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	across	across	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Tara | goodbye |  |  |  | in Birmingham and the Black Country | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot goodbye=Theme in birmingham=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | present | cheerio | a goodbye |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | participle |  | a goodbye *not said here* |  | Britain |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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:12`.

**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): 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/).

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