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title: «Mardy» is Northern English for grumpy and sulky, «wee buns» is Nort… — Gaming nights and the morning after · tree and pragmatics
description: «Mardy» is Northern English for grumpy and sulky, «wee buns» is Northern Irish for dead easy, and «yaar» is Hindi and Urdu for mate. Who acts: Mardy, wee buns, yaar. A sentence of the lesson «Gaming nights and the morning after» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Gaming nights and the morning after, sentence 15

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«Mardy» is Northern English for grumpy and sulky, «wee buns» is Northern Irish for dead easy, and «yaar» is Hindi and Urdu for mate.

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**Who acts:** Mardy, wee buns, yaar · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Northern English, Hindi

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Gaming nights and the morning after» 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 (Mardy, wee buns, yaar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:057-gaming-nights-and-the-morning-after.lesson:15
# text = «Mardy» is Northern English for grumpy and sulky, «wee buns» is Northern Irish for dead easy, and «yaar» is Hindi and Urdu for mate.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 057-gaming-nights-and-the-morning-after.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R2-punct-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Mardy	Mardy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	Northern	Northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
10	sulky	sulky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
13	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:amod
14	buns	bun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	Northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
24	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
25	yaar	yaar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	Hindi	Hindi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=28:cc
30	Urdu	Urdu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | Mardy | Northern English and Hindi and Urdu |  |  |  | for grumpy | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | wee buns |  |  |  |  | for dead easy; irish *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | yaar | Hindi and Urdu |  |  |  | for mate | 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:medicine:057-gaming-nights-and-the-morning-after.lesson:15`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R2-punct-next ×2, R7-rel-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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