--- title: People talk about it in all sorts of slang: a Scottish gran calls a… — Healthcare: who pays when you are ill · tree and pragmatics description: People talk about it in all sorts of slang: a Scottish gran calls a child a "bairn" and the "wee" cast a small one, in Wales "lush" means lovely, an Irish dad says "grand" for fine, and a young American might call adult paperwork "adulting" and feel "salty" (annoyed) about a bill. 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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 (People, Scottish gran, lush, Irish dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:020-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill.lesson:11 # text = People talk about it in all sorts of slang: a Scottish gran calls a child a "bairn" and the "wee" cast a small one, in Wales "lush" means lovely, an Irish dad says "grand" for fine, and a young American might call adult paperwork "adulting" and feel "salty" (annoyed) about a bill. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 020-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill.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, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|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 _ 7 case _ _ 6 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 sorts sort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 Scottish Scottish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 gran gran NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 bairn bairn NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 wee wee NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 cast cast VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:ccomp 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 34 lush lush NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 36 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 37 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 Irish Irish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 43 " " PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ _ 44 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:ccomp 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ _ 46 for for ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 obl _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 conj _ _ 52 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 conj _ _ 53 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 54 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 52 advcl _ _ 55 adult adult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=56:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 56 paperwork paperwork NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obj _ _ 57 " " PUNCT `` _ 58 punct _ _ 58 adulting adulting NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 appos _ _ 59 " " PUNCT '' _ 58 punct _ _ 60 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 61 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 54 conj _ _ 62 " " PUNCT `` _ 63 punct _ _ 63 salty salty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=61:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 64 " " PUNCT '' _ 63 punct _ _ 65 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 66 punct _ _ 66 annoyed annoyed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 parataxis _ _ 67 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 66 punct _ _ 68 about about ADP IN _ 70 case _ _ 69 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 70 det _ _ 70 bill bill NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obl _ _ 71 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | present | People | | | all sorts of slang | | about pay | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | | 2 | **call** | present | a Scottish gran | | a child | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient | | 3 | **cast** | past | a Scottish gran *not said here* | a small one | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Product | | 4 | **mean** | present | lush | | | | | in Wales; lovely *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in wales=Attribute | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a Irish dad | grand | | | | for fine | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent grand=Topic | | 6 | **call** | might | adult paperwork | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **feel** | infinitive | adult paperwork *not said here* | | | | | about a bill; salty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **sort** | | | slang | | | | | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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:020-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill.lesson:11`. **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, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Healthcare: who pays when you are ill, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/10/) - next →: [Healthcare: who pays when you are ill, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/)