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title: People say it their own way: "our kid" in Manchester means my brothe… — Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas · tree and pragmatics
description: People say it their own way: "our kid" in Manchester means my brother or sister, "ken" and "aye" in Scotland mean you know and yes, "bare" in London means lots of, and "sus" means suspicious or odd. Who acts: People, kid, aye, you. A sentence of the lesson «Lego builds: instructions vs your own idea
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# Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas, sentence 4

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People say it their own way: "our kid" in Manchester means my brother or sister, "ken" and "aye" in Scotland mean you know and yes, "bare" in London means lots of, and "sus" means suspicious or odd.

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**Who acts:** People, kid, aye, you, sus · **What happens:** say, mean, know · **To what, where:** Building, brother, lots · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas» 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, kid, aye, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:032-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas.lesson:4
# text = People say it their own way: "our kid" in Manchester means my brother or sister, "ken" and "aye" in Scotland mean you know and yes, "bare" in London means lots of, and "sus" means suspicious or odd.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 032-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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	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	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:appos
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	ken	ken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
25	aye	aye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	40	discourse	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:discourse
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
36	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
41	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	nmod	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	_
46	sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
47	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	46	punct	_	_
48	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
49	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	xcomp	_	_
50	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	conj	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14: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 | Building |  |  |  | people's own way *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | our kid in Manchester | my brother or sister |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic |
| 3 | **mean** | present | aye in Scotland *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **mean** | present | you *not said here* | lots |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic |
| 6 | **mean** | present | sus |  |  |  |  | suspicious *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:032-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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