--- title: Words in this lesson: "nesh" in the North and Midlands of England me… — Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet · tree and pragmatics description: Words in this lesson: "nesh" in the North and Midlands of England means always feeling the cold; "mardy" means grumpy or sulky; "now now" in South Africa means soon; "chur" in New Zealand means thanks or cool. Who acts: nesh, mardy, chur. 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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 (nesh, mardy, chur), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:036-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure.lesson:16 # text = Words in this lesson: "nesh" in the North and Midlands of England means always feeling the cold; "mardy" means grumpy or sulky; "now now" in South Africa means soon; "chur" in New Zealand means thanks or cool. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 036-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 lesson lesson NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 nesh nesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det 11 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 Midlands Midlands PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 appos _ _ 17 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 18 advmod _ _ 18 feeling feel VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:ccomp 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 obj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 mardy mardy NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 26 grumpy grumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 sulky sulky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 31 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 nsubj _ _ 32 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 fixed _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 37 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 38 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 37 advmod _ _ 39 ; ; PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 40 " " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ _ 41 chur chur NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 New New PROPN NNP _ 45 compound _ _ 45 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=46:obl 46 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 47 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 48 or or CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 conj _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | nesh in North Midlands | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **feel** *not said to happen* | gerund | nesh in North Midlands *not said here* | the cold | | | | always *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | present | mardy | | | | | grumpy *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | present | | | | | | soon *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mean** | present | chur in New Zealand | thanks | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic | 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:036-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure.lesson:16`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. 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