--- title: Slang check: "eh" is a Canadian word added to the end of a sentence;… — Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library… · tree and pragmatics description: Slang check: "eh" is a Canadian word added to the end of a sentence; "salty" means annoyed; "wisnae" (Scotland) means wasn't; Tim Tams are Australian chocolate biscuits. Who acts: eh, Slang check, wisnae, Tim Tams. 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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 (eh, Slang check, wisnae, Tim Tams), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.lesson:19 # text = Slang check: "eh" is a Canadian word added to the end of a sentence; "salty" means annoyed; "wisnae" (Scotland) means wasn't; Tim Tams are Australian chocolate biscuits. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 check check NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 eh eh NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 Canadian Canadian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 11 added add VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 salty salty NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 annoyed annoyed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 wisnae wisnae X FW Foreign=Yes 31 nsubj _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 29 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 31 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 ccomp _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 Tim Tim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 Tams tam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 37 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 38 Australian Australian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 39 chocolate chocolate NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 biscuits biscuit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 parataxis _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | eh | a Canadian word | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle | | a Canadian word *not said here* | | | to the end of a sentence | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to end=Co-Patient | | 3 | **mean** | present | Slang check | | | | | annoyed *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | present | wisnae | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | Tim Tams | Australian chocolate biscuits | | | | | tree rules | 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:religion-ethics:089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.lesson:19`. **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): R7-rel-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: [Owning up: the broken vase and the los…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/89-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book/18/) - next →: [Saying sorry and making amends: Zaccha…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/90-saying-sorry-and-making-amends-zacchaeus-pays-back/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/89-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book/)