--- title: In America "pants" means trousers; in Britain "pants" means underwea… — British and American words · tree and pragmatics description: In America "pants" means trousers; in Britain "pants" means underwear, so an American praising your "pants" means your trousers. Who acts: pants, American. 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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 (pants, American), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:021-british-and-american-words.lesson:6 # text = In America "pants" means trousers; in Britain "pants" means underwear, so an American praising your "pants" means your trousers. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 021-british-and-american-words.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 pants pants NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 6 nsubj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 trousers trousers NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 pants pants NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 14 nsubj _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 15 underwear underwear NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det 19 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:amod 20 praising praise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nsubj 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 pants pants NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 20 obj _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 25 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 26 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 trousers trousers NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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** | present | pants | trousers | | | | in America | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot trousers=Theme in america=Attribute | | 2 | **mean** | present | pants | underwear | | | | in Britain | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot underwear=Theme in britain=Attribute | | 3 | **praise** | gerund | | your pants | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pants=Theme | | 4 | **mean** | present | a American | your trousers | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trousers=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:021-british-and-american-words.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 ×3, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [British and American words, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/21-british-and-american-words/5/) - next →: [British and American words, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/21-british-and-american-words/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/21-british-and-american-words/)