--- title: Words people use: "telly" (UK) means TV; "bloke" (UK, Australia) mea… — "Crime is up, I saw it on the news" · tree and pragmatics description: Words people use: "telly" (UK) means TV; "bloke" (UK, Australia) means a man; "proper" (UK) means really; "back in my day" is how older people start talking about their childhood; "highkey" (US, young people) means very much, openly; "yinz" (Pittsburgh) means "you all"; "fr" means "for real". Who ac --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / ["Crime is up, I saw it on the news"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/) / 18 # "Crime is up, I saw it on the news", sentence 18 Words people use: "telly" (UK) means TV; "bloke" (UK, Australia) means a man; "proper" (UK) means really; "back in my day" is how older people start talking about their childhood; "highkey" (US, young people) means very much, openly; "yinz" (Pittsburgh) means "you all"; "fr" means "for real". **Who acts:** people, telly, bloke, US, yinz, fr · **What happens:** use, mean, be, start, talk, means · **To what, where:** Words, TV, man, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «"Crime is up, I saw it on the news"» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, telly, bloke, US), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news.lesson:18 # text = Words people use: "telly" (UK) means TV; "bloke" (UK, Australia) means a man; "proper" (UK) means really; "back in my day" is how older people start talking about their childhood; "highkey" (US, young people) means very much, openly; "yinz" (Pittsburgh) means "you all"; "fr" means "for real". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news.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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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 22 parataxis _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 telly telly NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 9 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:obj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 bloke bloke NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 18 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nsubj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 22 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 27 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 acl:relcl _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 30 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 32 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 33 really really ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=43:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 36 back back ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl:unmarked _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 42 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 43 advmod _ _ 43 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 parataxis _ _ 44 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nsubj _ _ 45 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 acl:relcl _ _ 46 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 45 xcomp _ _ 47 about about ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 childhood childhood NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 50 ; ; PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 51 " " PUNCT `` _ 52 punct _ _ 52 highkey highkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 53 " " PUNCT '' _ 52 punct _ _ 54 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 55 punct _ _ 55 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 60 nsubj _ _ 56 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 57 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 amod _ _ 58 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 parataxis _ _ 59 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 58 punct _ _ 60 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 61 very very ADV RB _ 62 advmod _ _ 62 much much ADV RB _ 60 advmod _ _ 63 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 64 openly openly ADV RB _ 60 advmod _ _ 65 ; ; PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ _ 66 " " PUNCT `` _ 67 punct _ _ 67 yinz yinz PROPN ADD _ 72 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=60:obj 68 " " PUNCT '' _ 67 punct _ _ 69 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 70 punct _ _ 70 Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 72 nsubj _ _ 71 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 70 punct _ _ 72 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 60 parataxis _ _ 73 " " PUNCT `` _ 74 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=81:punct 74 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 72 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=81:nsubj 75 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 81 det _ _ 76 " " PUNCT `` _ 79 punct _ _ 77 ; ; PUNCT , _ 79 punct _ _ 78 " " PUNCT `` _ 79 punct _ _ 79 fr fr NOUN NN Number=Sing 81 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=81:compound 80 " " PUNCT '' _ 79 punct _ _ 81 means means NOUN NN Number=Sing 72 ccomp _ _ 82 " " PUNCT `` _ 84 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=81:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 83 for for ADP IN _ 84 case _ _ 84 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 81 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=81:nmod 85 " " PUNCT '' _ 81 punct _ _ 86 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: express - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | 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 | telly | TV | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tv=Topic | | 3 | **mean** | present | bloke | a man | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | | day | old *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **start** | present | people | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **talk** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | about people's childhood | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about childhood=Topic | | 8 | **mean** | present | US | | | | | openly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **mean** | present | yinz | you | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | | 10 | **means** | | fr | | | | | for real | 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:world:177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news.lesson:18`. **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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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: ["Crime is up, I saw it on the news", 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/17/) - next →: [The politician's either-or and the str…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/)