Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland, sentence 8

In the Doric dialect of north-east Scotland "Fit like?" means how are you; "fit" is the local way of saying "what", because wh- often becomes f- there.

Who acts: fit, local way, wh · What happens: mean, be, say, become · To what, where: local way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Accents and dialects of Britain and Ireland» of the language 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 (fit, local way, wh), 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	_	4 dialect	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dialect	det
3	Doric	doric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dialect	amod
4	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 means	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	11 Fit	case
6	north	north	ADV	_	8 east	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 north	punct
8	east	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Fit	compound
9	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dialect	nmod
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Fit	punct
11	Fit	Fit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dialect	nmod
12	like	like	INTJ	_	4 dialect	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dialect	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 dialect	punct
15	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 are	advmod
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 means	ccomp
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 are	nsubj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 way	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 fit	punct
21	fit	fit	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 way	nsubj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 fit	punct
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 way	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 way	det
25	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 way	amod
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 means	ccomp
27	of	of	SCONJ	_	28 saying	mark
28	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 way	acl
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 what	punct
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 saying	obj
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 what	punct
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 becomes	punct
33	because	because	SCONJ	_	37 becomes	mark
34	wh	wh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 becomes	nsubj
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 wh	punct
36	often	often	ADV	_	37 becomes	advmod
37	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 means	conj
38	f	for	ADP	Abbr=Yes	40 there	case
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 f	punct
40	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 becomes	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present			in the Doric dialect Scotland of east Fit	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in dialect=Attribute
2	is a	present	fit	the local way		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the local way not said here	the local way		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
4	become	present	wh		often property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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:language:018-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland.lesson:8.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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