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title: In Ireland "craic" means fun or a good time, and "eejit" means idiot… — Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland · tree and pragmatics
description: In Ireland "craic" means fun or a good time, and "eejit" means idiot but is often said kindly between friends. Who acts: craic, eejit. 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
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# Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland, sentence 13

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In Ireland "craic" means fun or a good time, and "eejit" means idiot but is often said kindly between friends.

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**Who acts:** craic, eejit · **What happens:** mean, say · **To what, where:** fun, idiot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (craic, eejit), 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:13
# text = In Ireland "craic" means fun or a good time, and "eejit" means idiot but is often said kindly between friends.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
4	craic	craic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	eejit	eejit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis
18	idiot	idiot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	often	often	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
23	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	between	between	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | craic | fun or a good time |  |  |  | in Ireland | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot fun=Theme in ireland=Attribute |
| 2 | **mean** | present | eejit | idiot |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idiot=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive | eejit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | between friends; kindly, often *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |

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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:13`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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