--- title: Words people use: "no way" means "I don't believe it"; "chilling" me… — Sounds wrong, but is right · tree and pragmatics description: Words people use: "no way" means "I don't believe it"; "chilling" means relaxing; "my lover" (West Country) is a friendly "dear"; "proper job" (West Country) means well done; "bostin'" (Black Country) means brilliant; "deffo" (UK) means definitely. Who acts: people, way, grown ups, chilling. 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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, way, grown ups, chilling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.lesson:19 # text = Words people use: "no way" means "I don't believe it"; "chilling" means relaxing; "my lover" (West Country) is a friendly "dear"; "proper job" (West Country) means well done; "bostin'" (Black Country) means brilliant; "deffo" (UK) means definitely. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 7 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 chilling chilling NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 22 relaxing relax VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:ccomp 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 25 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 lover lover NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 29 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 Country Country PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:advcl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 34 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 36 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 39 " " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 40 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 43 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 45 punct _ _ 44 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 Country Country PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=49:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 46 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 45 punct _ _ 47 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 48 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 49 advmod _ _ 49 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 xcomp _ _ 50 ; ; PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 51 " " PUNCT `` _ 52 punct _ _ 52 bostin bostin NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 nsubj _ _ 53 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 52 punct _ _ 54 " " PUNCT '' _ 52 punct _ _ 55 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 57 punct _ _ 56 Black Black PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 compound _ _ 57 Country Country PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 58 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 57 punct _ _ 59 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 60 brilliant brilliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 xcomp _ _ 61 ; ; PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 62 " " PUNCT `` _ 63 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=68:punct 63 deffo deffo NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 nsubj _ _ 64 " " PUNCT '' _ 63 punct _ _ 65 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 66 punct _ _ 66 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 63 appos _ _ 67 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 66 punct _ _ 68 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 69 definitely definitely ADV RB _ 68 advmod _ _ 70 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent word=Theme clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **mean** | present | no way | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **believe** *in a quote* | present · do-support | grown ups *= up* | way | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 4 | **mean** | present | chilling | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **relax** *not said to happen* | gerund | chilling *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | a friendly proper job | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **mean** | present | a friendly proper job | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **do** *not said to happen* | participle | a friendly proper job *not said here* | | | | | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **mean** | present | bostin | | | | | brilliant *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **mean** | present | deffo | | | | | definitely *property* | 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:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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: [Sounds wrong, but is right, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/18/) - next →: [Sounds right, but is wrong, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/)