Sleepovers and inside jokes, sentence 39

In Newcastle «howay» means «come on» and «pet» is a friendly word like «love»; in the Midlands and the North «mardy» means grumpy or sulky.

Who acts: howay, pet, mardy · What happens: mean, come, be · To what, where: Newcastle, friendly word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and inside jokes» of the everyday 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 (howay, pet, mardy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 Newcastle	case
2	Newcastle	Newcastle	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 means	obl
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 howay	punct
4	howay	howay	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 howay	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 means	ccomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 »	case
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pet	cc
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 pet	punct
13	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 word	nsubj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 pet	punct
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 word	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 word	det
17	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 word	amod
18	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	obl
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 love	case
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 love	punct
21	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 word	nmod
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 love	punct
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 Midlands	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 Midlands	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Midlands	det
26	Midlands	Midlands	PROPN	Number=Plur	33 means	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 North	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 North	det
29	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Midlands	conj
30	«	«	PUNCT	_	31 mardy	punct
31	mardy	mardy	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 means	nsubj
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	31 mardy	punct
33	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 means	conj
34	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 means	xcomp
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 sulky	cc
36	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 grumpy	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	howay		Newcastle		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come in a quote	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	pet	a friendly word		like love	tree rules
4	mean	present	mardy			in the Midlands and the North; grumpy property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in midlands=Attribute

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, 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:everyday:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes.lesson:39.

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, 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.

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