--- title: People react in their own slang: "you're having a laugh" means you m… — Modern art: "my little brother could do that" · tree and pragmatics description: People react in their own slang: "you're having a laugh" means you must be joking, "dodgy" means suspicious, "it's giving space" means it feels like outer space, "pet" in the North East means dear, and "bruv" in London means mate. Who acts: People, you, own slang, dodgy. 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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, you, own slang, dodgy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:018-modern-art-my-little-brother-could-do-that.lesson:4 # text = People react in their own slang: "you're having a laugh" means you must be joking, "dodgy" means suspicious, "it's giving space" means it feels like outer space, "pet" in the North East means dear, and "bruv" in London means mate. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 018-modern-art-my-little-brother-could-do-that.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 react react VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:csubj 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 laugh laugh NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 15 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux _ _ 19 joking joke VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 ccomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 dodgy dodgy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 nsubj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 25 suspicious suspicious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 ccomp _ _ 31 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 33 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 ccomp _ _ 36 like like ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 outer outer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct 40 " " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ _ 41 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=46:amod 46 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 47 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 parataxis _ _ 48 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 xcomp _ _ 49 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 51 " " PUNCT `` _ 52 punct _ _ 52 bruv bruv NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nsubj _ _ 53 " " PUNCT '' _ 52 punct _ _ 54 in in ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 55 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=56:obl 56 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=47:parataxis 57 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obj _ _ 58 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **react** | present | People | | | people's own slang | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you | a laugh | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laugh=Patient | | 3 | **mean** | present | people's own slang *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **joke** *speech: other* | must · progressive | you | | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mean** | present | dodgy | | | | | suspicious *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **give** *in a quote* | present · progressive | art | space | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **mean** | present | art *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **feel** | present | art | | | | | like outer space | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like space=Theme | | 9 | **mean** | present | pet in the North East | | | | | dear *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **mean** | present | bruv in London | mate | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic | | 11 | **slang** | | people | | | | | | nom slang «communication transitive»: poss=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:arts:018-modern-art-my-little-brother-could-do-that.lesson:4`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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