--- title: Words people use: "I'm dead" here means "I'm in big trouble", "sharp… — Late and early: being where you need to be on time · tree and pragmatics description: Words people use: "I'm dead" here means "I'm in big trouble", "sharp" means exactly on time, "keen" means eager, "my backside!" means "I don't believe you" (rude-ish, UK), "grand" means fine (Ireland) and "tamping" means furious (Wales). Who acts: people, 10 minutes, Words, sharp. 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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, 10 minutes, Words, sharp), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:106-late-and-early-being-on-time.lesson:27 # text = Words people use: "I'm dead" here means "I'm in big trouble", "sharp" means exactly on time, "keen" means eager, "my backside!" means "I don't believe you" (rude-ish, UK), "grand" means fine (Ireland) and "tamping" means furious (Wales). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 106-late-and-early-being-on-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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 Words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:dislocated 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 `` _ 8 punct _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 14 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 21 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 24 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 29 keen keen NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 32 eager eager NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 backside backside NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 37 ! ! PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 39 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 40 " " PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ _ 41 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 42 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 44 advmod _ _ 44 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 ccomp _ _ 45 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ _ 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ _ 47 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 48 punct _ _ 48 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 ccomp _ _ 49 - - PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 50 ish ish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 list _ _ 51 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 52 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 53 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 48 punct _ _ 54 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 55 " " PUNCT `` _ 56 punct _ _ 56 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=58:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 57 " " PUNCT '' _ 56 punct _ _ 58 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 59 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 xcomp _ _ 60 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 61 punct _ _ 61 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 obj _ _ 62 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 61 punct _ _ 63 and and CCONJ CC _ 67 cc _ _ 64 " " PUNCT `` _ 65 punct _ _ 65 tamping tamping NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 nsubj _ _ 66 " " PUNCT '' _ 65 punct _ _ 67 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 58 conj _ _ 68 furious furious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 67 conj _ _ 69 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 70 punct _ _ 70 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 68 appos _ _ 71 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 70 punct _ _ 72 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | **is** *in a quote* | present | 10 minutes on 190 school days *= minute* | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | Words | | | here | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | 10 minutes on 190 school days *= minute* | | | big trouble | | | tree rules | | 5 | **mean** | present | sharp | | | | time | exactly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **mean** | present | keen | eager | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eager=Topic | | 7 | **mean** | present | my backside | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **not** **believe** *in a quote* | present · do-support | 10 minutes on 190 school days *= minute* | you | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 9 | **mean** | present | grand | Ireland | | | | fine *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ireland=Topic | | 10 | **mean** | present | tamping | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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:106-late-and-early-being-on-time.lesson:27`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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: [Late and early: being where you need t…, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/106-late-and-early-being-on-time/26/) - next →: [How long until? Counting on across the…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/106-late-and-early-being-on-time/)