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title: People say it their own way: "bruh" is a friendly "come on, mate", "… — Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons · tree and pragmatics
description: People say it their own way: "bruh" is a friendly "come on, mate", "cringe" means embarrassing, and "mad" in Britain means amazing or crazy. Who acts: People, cringe, mad. A sentence of the lesson «Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons, sentence 4

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People say it their own way: "bruh" is a friendly "come on, mate", "cringe" means embarrassing, and "mad" in Britain means amazing or crazy.

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**Who acts:** People, cringe, mad · **What happens:** say, be, come on, mean · **To what, where:** water · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons» of the arts 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, cringe, mad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:024-voices-sound-and-music-in-films-and-cartoons.lesson:4
# text = People say it their own way: "bruh" is a friendly "come on, mate", "cringe" means embarrassing, and "mad" in Britain means amazing or crazy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 024-voices-sound-and-music-in-films-and-cartoons.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
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	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bruh	bruh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
16	on	on	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
22	cringe	cringe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	embarrassing	embarrassing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=24:punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
29	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	nsubj	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
34	amazing	amazing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	crazy	crazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | People | water |  |  |  | People's own way *obl* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | friendly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come on** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **mean** | present | cringe |  |  |  |  | embarrassing *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **mean** | present | mad in Britain |  |  |  |  | amazing *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:024-voices-sound-and-music-in-films-and-cartoons.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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/).

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