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title: In the Midlands and North of England "nesh" describes someone who fe… — Verbs: doing words and being words · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Midlands and North of England "nesh" describes someone who feels the cold easily or is a bit soft. Who acts: nesh. A sentence of the lesson «Verbs: doing words and being words» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Verbs: doing words and being words, sentence 17

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In the Midlands and North of England "nesh" describes someone who feels the cold easily or is a bit soft.

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**Who acts:** nesh · **What happens:** describe, feel, be · **To what, where:** someone, Midlands, cold

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Verbs: doing words and being words» 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 (nesh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:003-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words.lesson:17
# text = In the Midlands and North of England "nesh" describes someone who feels the cold easily or is a bit soft.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 003-verbs-doing-words-and-being-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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Midlands	midland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
5	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
9	nesh	nesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	describes	describe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	obj	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:obj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
17	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **describe** | present | nesh | someone |  | the Midlands and North of England |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent someone=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | present |  | the cold |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | a bit *obl:unmarked*; soft *property* | 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:003-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words.lesson:17`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-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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