--- title: Words people use: "close but no cigar" means nearly right but wrong,… — Days, weeks and months · tree and pragmatics description: Words people use: "close but no cigar" means nearly right but wrong, "bins" means rubbish collection (UK), "bairn" means child, "aye" means yes, "ken" means know and "dinnae" means don't (Scotland). Who acts: people, close, bins, bairn. 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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, close, bins, bairn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:111-days-weeks-and-months.lesson:23 # text = Words people use: "close but no cigar" means nearly right but wrong, "bins" means rubbish collection (UK), "bairn" means child, "aye" means yes, "ken" means know and "dinnae" means don't (Scotland). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 111-days-weeks-and-months.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:cc 8 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 9 det _ _ 9 cigar cigar NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nsubj 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:ccomp 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 bins bin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 21 rubbish rubbish NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 collection collection NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 24 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 bairn bairn NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 31 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 34 aye aye NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 36 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 parataxis _ _ 37 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 36 obj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 39 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ _ 40 ken ken 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 30 parataxis _ _ 43 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 obj _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 45 " " PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ _ 46 dinnae dinnae X FW Foreign=Yes 48 nsubj _ _ 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ 48 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 conj _ _ 49 do do VERB VBP _ 48 obj _ _ 50 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 49 advmod _ _ 51 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 52 punct _ _ 52 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 dep _ _ 53 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 52 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=48:punct 54 . . PUNCT . _ 30 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 | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | close but no cigar | right | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Topic | | 3 | **mean** | present | bins | rubbish collection | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collection=Topic | | 4 | **mean** | present | bairn | child | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic | | 5 | **mean** | present | aye | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yes=Topic | | 6 | **mean** | present | ken | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **know** | present | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **mean** | present | dinnae | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **not** **do** | present | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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:111-days-weeks-and-months.lesson:23`. **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 ×4, 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: [Days, weeks and months, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/111-days-weeks-and-months/22/) - next →: [Leap years and 29 February birthdays, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/112-leap-years-and-29-february-birthdays/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/111-days-weeks-and-months/)