--- title: In Australia and New Zealand "yeah nah" usually means no, politely,… — Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, comma… · tree and pragmatics description: In Australia and New Zealand "yeah nah" usually means no, politely, and "nah yeah" usually means yes; listen to the last word. Who acts: nah. A sentence of the lesson «Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Kinds of sentences: statements, questi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/) / 14 # Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations, sentence 14 In Australia and New Zealand "yeah nah" usually means no, politely, and "nah yeah" usually means yes; listen to the last word. **Who acts:** nah · **What happens:** mean, listen This is a sentence of the lesson «Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations» 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 (nah), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:007-kinds-of-sentences.lesson:14 # text = In Australia and New Zealand "yeah nah" usually means no, politely, and "nah yeah" usually means yes; listen to the last word. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 007-kinds-of-sentences.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 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 New New PROPN NNP _ 5 flat _ _ 5 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 7 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ _ 8 nah nah NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 usually usually ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 11 discourse _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 politely politely ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 18 nah nah INTJ UH _ 22 discourse _ _ 19 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 22 discourse _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 21 usually usually ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 23 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 22 discourse _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 | nah | | | | | in Australia and New Zealand; politely, usually *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in australia=Attribute | | 2 | **mean** | present | nah *not said here* | | | | | usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **listen** | infinitive | | | | | | to the last word | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme | 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:007-kinds-of-sentences.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 ×1. **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: [Kinds of sentences: statements, questi…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/13/) - next →: [Kinds of sentences: statements, questi…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/)