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title: In Wales «tidy» means good or great, and in Northern Ireland «wee» m… — A balanced plate for a kid who plays sport · tree and pragmatics
description: In Wales «tidy» means good or great, and in Northern Ireland «wee» means small. Who acts: tidy, wee. A sentence of the lesson «A balanced plate for a kid who plays sport» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# A balanced plate for a kid who plays sport, sentence 17

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In Wales «tidy» means good or great, and in Northern Ireland «wee» means small.

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**Who acts:** tidy, wee · **What happens:** mean

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A balanced plate for a kid who plays sport» of the medicine 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 (tidy, wee), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:054-a-balanced-plate-for-a-kid-who-plays-sport.lesson:17
# text = In Wales «tidy» means good or great, and in Northern Ireland «wee» means small.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 054-a-balanced-plate-for-a-kid-who-plays-sport.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	tidy	tidy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Northern	Northern	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
14	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	wee	wee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | tidy |  |  |  |  | in Wales; good *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in wales=Attribute |
| 2 | **mean** | present | wee |  |  |  |  | in Northern Ireland; small *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in ireland=Attribute |

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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:medicine:054-a-balanced-plate-for-a-kid-who-plays-sport.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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