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title: Ginnel and snicket are northern English words for a narrow passage b… — Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland · tree and pragmatics
description: Ginnel and snicket are northern English words for a narrow passage between houses; twitten is a Sussex word for a narrow lane. Who acts: Ginnel, twitten. 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 an
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# Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland, sentence 14

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Ginnel and snicket are northern English words for a narrow passage between houses; twitten is a Sussex word for a narrow lane.

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**Who acts:** Ginnel, twitten · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** northern English words, Sussex word

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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 (Ginnel, twitten), 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:14
# text = Ginnel and snicket are northern English words for a narrow passage between houses; twitten is a Sussex word for a narrow lane.
# 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	Ginnel	ginnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	snicket	snicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	between	between	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	twitten	twitten	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Sussex	Sussex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
19	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	lane	lane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | Ginnel and snicket | northern English words |  |  |  | for a narrow passage between houses | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | twitten | a Sussex word |  |  |  | for a narrow lane | tree rules |

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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:14`.

**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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