--- title: Scouse is the accent and dialect of Liverpool, shaped over centuries… — Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland · tree and pragmatics description: Scouse is the accent and dialect of Liverpool, shaped over centuries partly by Irish and Welsh speech; "boss" means great and "la" means lad or mate. Who acts: Scouse, boss, la. A sentence of the lesson «Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland» of the language course of Mova's primary school wit --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland, sentence 6 Scouse is the accent and dialect of Liverpool, shaped over centuries partly by Irish and Welsh speech; "boss" means great and "la" means lad or mate. **Who acts:** Scouse, boss, la · **What happens:** be, shape, mean · **To what, where:** accent, great, lad 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 (Scouse, boss, la), 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:6 # text = Scouse is the accent and dialect of Liverpool, shaped over centuries partly by Irish and Welsh speech; "boss" means great and "la" means lad or mate. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Scouse scouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 accent accent NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 dialect dialect NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Liverpool Liverpool PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 over over ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 partly partly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 Irish Irish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 Welsh welsh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 18 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 24 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:xcomp 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 27 la la NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 30 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Scouse | the accent and dialect | | | | of Liverpool | tree rules | | 2 | **shape** | participle | | the accent and dialect *not said here* | | | century | by Irish speech; partly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **mean** | present | boss | great | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent great=Topic | | 4 | **mean** | present | la | lad or mate | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Topic | 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:6`. **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, 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…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland/5/) - next →: [Accents and dialects of Britain and Ir…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland/)