--- title: In South African English a "robot" is a traffic light, "lekker" mean… — Accents and dialects around the world · tree and pragmatics description: In South African English a "robot" is a traffic light, "lekker" means great or tasty (from Afrikaans), "now now" means soon and "just now" means some time later. Who acts: robot, lekker. 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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 (robot, lekker), 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:8 # text = In South African English a "robot" is a traffic light, "lekker" means great or tasty (from Afrikaans), "now now" means soon and "just now" means some time later. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 4 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 robot robot NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 traffic traffic NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 15 lekker lekker NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 18 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 obj _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc 20 tasty tasty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Afrikaans Afrikaans PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 27 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 28 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 31 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 30 advmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=30:cc 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 34 just just ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 advmod _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 37 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 38 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 39 det _ _ 39 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl:unmarked _ _ 40 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 37 advmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17: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 | a robot | a traffic light | | South African English | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | lekker | great | | Afrikaans | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | now; now | soon *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | present | | | | | now | late *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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:8`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. 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