--- title: People say it their own way: in Britain "that's so jokes" means real… — Special effects and stunts · tree and pragmatics description: People say it their own way: in Britain "that's so jokes" means really funny, "mad money" is a huge amount of money, and "don't you dare" from a mum means a firm no. Who acts: People, that, jokes, mad money. 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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, that, jokes, mad money), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:025-special-effects-and-stunts.lesson:4 # text = People say it their own way: in Britain "that's so jokes" means really funny, "mad money" is a huge amount of money, and "don't you dare" from a mum means a firm no. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 025-special-effects-and-stunts.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 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:unmarked _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 11 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:WDT:PronType=Rel 12 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 17 really really ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 21 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 ccomp _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 33 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 34 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 dare dare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 csubj _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 from from ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:obl 41 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 firm firm NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 no. no. NOUN NN Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | People | cup | | | | People's own way *obl:unmarked* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | jokes | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | jokes | | | | | funny *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | mad money | a huge amount | | | | of money | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **dare** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | | | | | from a mum | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **mean** | present | | a firm no. | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent no.=Topic | 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:025-special-effects-and-stunts.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 ×1, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Special effects and stunts, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/25-special-effects-and-stunts/3/) - next →: [Special effects and stunts, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/25-special-effects-and-stunts/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/25-special-effects-and-stunts/)