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title: In Pittsburgh "yinz" means you all; a fizzy drink is "pop" in much o… — Accents and dialects around the world · tree and pragmatics
description: In Pittsburgh "yinz" means you all; a fizzy drink is "pop" in much of the Midwest, "soda" in the Northeast and California, and sometimes "coke" in parts of the South. Who acts: yinz, fizzy drink. A sentence of the lesson «Accents and dialects around the world» of the language course of Mova's primar
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# Accents and dialects around the world, sentence 5

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In Pittsburgh "yinz" means you all; a fizzy drink is "pop" in much of the Midwest, "soda" in the Northeast and California, and sometimes "coke" in parts of the South.

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**Who acts:** yinz, fizzy drink · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** you, Pittsburgh, pop, much · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Accents and dialects around the world» 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 (yinz, fizzy drink), 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:5
# text = In Pittsburgh "yinz" means you all; a fizzy drink is "pop" in much of the Midwest, "soda" in the Northeast and California, and sometimes "coke" in parts of the South.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
4	yinz	yinz	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	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	pop	pop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Midwest	Midwest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
24	soda	soda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Northeast	northeast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	California	California	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	35	advmod	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
35	coke	coke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:obl
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	.	.	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 | yinz | you |  | Pittsburgh |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a fizzy drink | pop and soda in the Northeast and California |  | much of the Midwest |  |  | 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:019-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world.lesson:5`.

**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 ×2. **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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