--- title: Britain talks about it in a hundred accents: a Geordie says "howay,… — UK elections and the prime minister, as reported · tree and pragmatics description: Britain talks about it in a hundred accents: a Geordie says "howay, man" (come on) and calls a good thing "canny", a Scot says "dreich" for grey drizzly weather and "dinnae ken" for "don't know", a Londoner says "bare" for lots, and in Bristol "gurt" means great or big. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Britain, Geordie, good thing, Scot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:017-uk-elections-and-the-prime-minister-as-reported.lesson:8 # text = Britain talks about it in a hundred accents: a Geordie says "howay, man" (come on) and calls a good thing "canny", a Scot says "dreich" for grey drizzly weather and "dinnae ken" for "don't know", a Londoner says "bare" for lots, and in Bristol "gurt" means great or big. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 017-uk-elections-and-the-prime-minister-as-reported.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 talks talk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 about about ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 accents accent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Geordie geordie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 14 howay howay NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 19 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 20 on on ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obl|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 canny canny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:det 32 Scot Scot PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 35 dreich dreich NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:ccomp 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 39 drizzly drizzly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:obl 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 " " PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ _ 43 dinnae dinnae X FW _ 44 compound _ _ 44 ken ken NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ _ 46 for for ADP IN _ 50 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=50:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 47 " " PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ _ 48 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 49 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 50 advmod _ _ 50 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 acl _ _ 51 " " PUNCT '' _ 50 punct _ _ 52 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 53 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 Londoner londoner PROPN NNP Number=Sing 55 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=55:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 55 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 conj _ _ 56 " " PUNCT `` _ 57 punct _ _ 57 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 obj _ _ 58 " " PUNCT '' _ 57 punct _ _ 59 for for ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 60 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 obl _ _ 61 , , PUNCT , _ 66 punct _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 66 cc _ _ 63 in in ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 64 Bristol Bristol PROPN NNP Number=Sing 68 obl _ _ 65 " " PUNCT `` _ 66 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=64:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 66 gurt gurt NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 nsubj _ _ 67 " " PUNCT '' _ 66 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=57:punct 68 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 55 conj _ _ 69 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 68 xcomp _ _ 70 or or CCONJ CC _ 71 cc _ _ 71 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 69 conj _ _ 72 . . 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 | **talk** | present | Britain | | | a hundred accents | | about crown | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a Geordie | howay and man | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent howay=Topic | | 3 | **come on** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **call** | present | a good thing | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a Scot | dreich | | | | for grey drizzly weather and dinnae ken | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dreich=Topic | | 6 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | grey drizzly weather and dinnae ken *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a Londoner | bare | | | | for lots | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bare=Topic | | 8 | **mean** | present | gurt | | | | | in Bristol; great *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in bristol=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:017-uk-elections-and-the-prime-minister-as-reported.lesson:8`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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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