--- title: "She'll be right" in Australia and New Zealand means "it'll be fine,… — Sarcasm and tone of voice · tree and pragmatics description: "She'll be right" in Australia and New Zealand means "it'll be fine, don't worry"; "she" means the situation, not a person, and "yeah, nah" often means "no" or "well, not really". Who acts: on, Australia, parent. 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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 (on, Australia, parent), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:029-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice.lesson:14 # text = "She'll be right" in Australia and New Zealand means "it'll be fine, don't worry"; "she" means the situation, not a person, and "yeah, nah" often means "no" or "well, not really". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 029-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice.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 ×5 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 5 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 New New PROPN NNP _ 11 flat _ _ 11 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 cop _ _ 17 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 ccomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 worry worry VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 27 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 situation situation NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ _ 37 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 42 discourse _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 nah nah INTJ UH _ 42 discourse _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 41 often often ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 43 " " PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=51:punct 44 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 51 discourse _ _ 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ _ 46 or or CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 47 " " PUNCT `` _ 51 punct _ _ 48 well well INTJ UH _ 51 discourse _ _ 49 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 50 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 51 advmod _ _ 51 really really ADV RB _ 42 obj _ _ 52 " " PUNCT '' _ 51 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct 53 . . 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 | **is** *in a quote* | future | on | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | Australia and New Zealand | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | future | parent | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **worry** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **mean** | present | on | the situation | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent situation=Topic | | 6 | **mean** | present | | | | | | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent really=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:029-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice.lesson:14`. **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 ×5. **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: [Sarcasm and tone of voice, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/13/) - next →: [Sarcasm and tone of voice, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/)