--- title: Words people use: "mam" means mum (Ireland, the north of England, Wa… — Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really… · tree and pragmatics description: Words people use: "mam" means mum (Ireland, the north of England, Wales), "faffing" means wasting time on little things, "muppet" means a silly person, "howay" means "come on" (north-east England) and "yinz" means "you all" (Pittsburgh, USA). Who acts: people, mam, faffing, muppet. 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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, mam, faffing, muppet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time.lesson:22 # text = Words people use: "mam" means mum (Ireland, the north of England, Wales), "faffing" means wasting time on little things, "muppet" means a silly person, "howay" means "come on" (north-east England) and "yinz" means "you all" (Pittsburgh, USA). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 dep _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 mam mam NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 11 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 faffing faff NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 25 wasting waste VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:ccomp 26 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 32 muppet muppet NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 39 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 40 howay howay NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 42 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 43 " " PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ _ 44 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 ccomp _ _ 45 on on ADV RP _ 44 compound:prt _ _ 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ _ 47 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 51 punct _ _ 48 north north ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 49 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 48 punct _ _ 50 east east ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 52 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 51 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 54 " " PUNCT `` _ 55 punct _ _ 55 yinz yinz NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ _ 56 " " PUNCT '' _ 55 punct _ _ 57 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 conj _ _ 58 " " PUNCT `` _ 59 punct _ _ 59 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 57 obj _ _ 60 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 59 nmod:unmarked _ _ 61 " " PUNCT `` _ 63 punct _ _ 62 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 63 punct _ _ 63 Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 60 nmod _ _ 64 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 65 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 63 nmod:unmarked _ _ 66 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 63 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=51:punct 67 . . PUNCT . _ 42 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | people | Words *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | mam | mum | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Topic | | 3 | **mean** | present | faffing | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **waste** *not said to happen* | gerund | faffing *not said here* | | | | time | on little things *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent on thing=Goal | | 5 | **mean** | present | muppet | a silly person | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Topic | | 6 | **mean** | present | howay | east England | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **come on** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **mean** | present | yinz | you | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time.lesson:22`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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