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title: Even small things have many names: a narrow passage between houses i… — Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland · tree and pragmatics
description: Even small things have many names: a narrow passage between houses is a ginnel or a snicket in the North, a twitten in Sussex and an alley in many other places. Who acts: small things, narrow passage. A sentence of the lesson «Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland» of the language course of Mo
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# Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland, sentence 2

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Even small things have many names: a narrow passage between houses is a ginnel or a snicket in the North, a twitten in Sussex and an alley in many other places.

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**Who acts:** small things, narrow passage · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** many names, ginnel, North

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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 (small things, narrow passage), 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:2
# text = Even small things have many names: a narrow passage between houses is a ginnel or a snicket in the North, a twitten in Sussex and an alley in many other places.
# 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
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ginnel	ginnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	snicket	snicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	twitten	twitten	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Sussex	Sussex	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	alley	alley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **have** | present | small things | many names and a ginnel or a snicket and a twitten in Sussex and a alley in many other places |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a narrow passage between houses | a ginnel or a snicket and a twitten in Sussex and a alley in many other places |  | the North |  |  | 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:2`.

**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. **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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