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(yinz = you all), down South it is "y'all", in Sligo a cousin might call Uncle an "eejit" (a fool, said half in fun) and then the craic (fun) carries on, and in Liverpool "our kid" means your brother or sister. **Who acts:** Families, subject, cousin, fool, craic, kid · **What happens:** say, be, call, carry on, mean · **To what, where:** subject, Pittsburgh dinner, y'all, Uncle, Sligo, fun · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends» of the politics 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 (Families, subject, cousin, fool), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.lesson:6 # text = Families say it their own way: at a Pittsburgh dinner it is "yinz want more pie?" (yinz = you all), down South it is "y'all", in Sligo a cousin might call Uncle an "eejit" (a fool, said half in fun) and then the craic (fun) carries on, and in Liverpool "our kid" means your brother or sister. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 15 yinz yinz PROPN ADD _ 16 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:dislocated 16 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 17 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 amod _ _ 18 pie pie NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 ? ? PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 22 yinz yinz PROPN ADD _ 2 parataxis _ _ 23 = = PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 conj _ _ 25 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 24 nmod:unmarked _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 down down ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 29 South south ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 33 y'all y'all NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Sligo Sligo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 40 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 parataxis _ _ 42 Uncle Uncle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=41:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 43 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 " " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ _ 45 eejit eejit NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:obj 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 47 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 49 punct _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 appos _ _ 50 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 51 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 acl _ _ 52 half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 51 advmod _ _ 53 in in ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ _ 55 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 54 punct _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 57 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 63 advmod _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 craic craic NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 nsubj _ _ 60 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 61 punct _ _ 61 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 appos _ _ 62 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 61 punct _ _ 63 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 64 on on ADV RB _ 63 compound:prt _ _ 65 , , PUNCT , _ 73 punct _ _ 66 and and CCONJ CC _ 73 cc _ _ 67 in in ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 68 Liverpool Liverpool PROPN NNP Number=Sing 73 obl _ _ 69 " " PUNCT `` _ 71 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=68:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 70 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 71 nmod:poss _ _ 71 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 nsubj _ _ 72 " " PUNCT '' _ 71 punct _ _ 73 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 74 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 75 nmod:poss _ _ 75 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 obj _ _ 76 or or CCONJ CC _ 77 cc _ _ 77 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 75 conj _ _ 78 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | Families | subject | | | | Families's own way *obl:unmarked* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | subject | | | a Pittsburgh dinner | | want *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | subject | y'all | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **call** | might | a cousin | | Uncle | Sligo | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent uncle=Recipient | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a fool *not said here* | | | fun | | half *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in fun=Manner | | 6 | **carry on** | present | the craic | | | | then | | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **mean** | present | our kid | your brother or sister | | | | in Liverpool | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot brother=Theme in liverpool=Attribute | 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:politics:015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.lesson:6`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. 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