--- title: Words in this lesson: "slay" means do something brilliantly; "back i… — Protests, petitions and young activists · tree and pragmatics description: Words in this lesson: "slay" means do something brilliantly; "back in my day" is how older people start a story about when they were young; "yinz" in Pittsburgh means you all; "craic" in Ireland means fun or news, and "eejit" means fool. Who acts: slay, older people, people, yinz. 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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 (slay, older people, people, yinz), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:038-protests-petitions-and-young-activists.lesson:16 # text = Words in this lesson: "slay" means do something brilliantly; "back in my day" is how older people start a story about when they were young; "yinz" in Pittsburgh means you all; "craic" in Ireland means fun or news, and "eejit" means fool. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 038-protests-petitions-and-young-activists.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 ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 dislocated _ _ 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 : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 slay slay NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 means means VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 parataxis _ _ 10 do do VERB VB _ 9 ccomp _ _ 11 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 obj _ _ 12 brilliantly brilliantly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 15 back back ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 21 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 22 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 amod _ _ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 advcl _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 about about SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 nmod _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 34 yinz yinz NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 39 nmod:unmarked _ _ 41 ; ; PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=43:punct 42 " " PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ _ 43 craic craic NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 47 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 48 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ _ 49 or or CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 conj _ _ 51 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 53 " " PUNCT `` _ 54 punct _ _ 54 eejit eejit NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nsubj _ _ 55 " " PUNCT '' _ 54 punct _ _ 56 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:parataxis 57 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obj _ _ 58 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **means** | present | slay | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | infinitive | slay *not said here* | something | | | | brilliantly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | | 3 | **is** | present | older people | | | | day | start *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | past | people | | | | | young *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **mean** | present | yinz in Pittsburgh | you | | | | Words in this lesson *dislocated* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | | 6 | **mean** | present | craic in Ireland | fun or news | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Topic | | 7 | **mean** | present | eejit | fool | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=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:038-protests-petitions-and-young-activists.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Protests, petitions and young activists, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists/15/) - next →: [Arguing politely and never calling names, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/39-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists/)