--- title: The same word can mean different things in different countries: in C… — Accents and dialects around the world · tree and pragmatics description: The same word can mean different things in different countries: in Cape Town "Turn left at the robot" means at the traffic light, and in Sydney "Grab your togs and thongs" means your swimsuit and flip-flops. Who acts: same word. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:019-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world.lesson:1 # text = The same word can mean different things in different countries: in Cape Town "Turn left at the robot" means at the traffic light, and in Sydney "Grab your togs and thongs" means your swimsuit and flip-flops. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 019-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 11 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 Cape Cape PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 Town Town PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 16 Turn Turn VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 22 csubj _ _ 17 left left ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 robot robot NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 traffic traffic NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Sydney Sydney PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 32 Grab grab VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 30 parataxis _ _ 33 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 togs tog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 thongs thong NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 38 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 39 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 swimsuit swimsuit NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 flip flip NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ _ 44 flops flop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 flat _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | can | the same word | different things | | | | in different countries | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme in country=Attribute | | 2 | **turn** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | left *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | at the robot; at the traffic light; in Cape Town | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in town=Attribute | | 4 | **grab** *in a quote* | infinitive | | your togs and thongs | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tog=Theme | | 5 | **mean** | present | | your swimsuit and flip | | | | in Sydney | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot swimsuit=Theme in sydney=Attribute | 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:019-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. 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