--- title: Bands talk in their own slang: in Liverpool "our kid" is your brothe… — Starting a band · tree and pragmatics description: Bands talk in their own slang: in Liverpool "our kid" is your brother or sister, "la" is mate and "boss" is great; in Australia a "galah" is a fool (from a noisy pink parrot) and "yeah nah" means no; in the southern US "fixin' to" means about to. Who acts: Bands, kid, brother, galah. 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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 (Bands, kid, brother, galah), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:004-starting-a-band.lesson:4 # text = Bands talk in their own slang: in Liverpool "our kid" is your brother or sister, "la" is mate and "boss" is great; in Australia a "galah" is a fool (from a noisy pink parrot) and "yeah nah" means no; in the southern US "fixin' to" means about to. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 004-starting-a-band.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Bands band NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 talk talk 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 : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Liverpool Liverpool PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 11 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 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 la la NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 24 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 27 boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 acl:relcl _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 36 galah galah NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 advcl _ _ 41 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 46 punct _ _ 42 from from ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 44 noisy noisy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 45 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=46:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 46 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:parataxis 47 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 46 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 49 " " PUNCT `` _ 51 punct _ _ 50 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 51 discourse _ _ 51 nah nah NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nsubj _ _ 52 " " PUNCT '' _ 51 punct _ _ 53 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:advcl 54 no no NOUN NN _ 53 obj _ _ 55 ; ; PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 56 in in ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 58 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 amod _ _ 59 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 65 obl _ _ 60 " " PUNCT `` _ 61 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=59:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 61 fixin fixin NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 nsubj _ _ 62 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 61 punct _ _ 63 to to PART TO _ 65 mark _ _ 64 " " PUNCT '' _ 63 punct _ _ 65 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 conj _ _ 66 about about ADV RB _ 65 advmod _ _ 67 to to PART TO _ 66 fixed _ _ 68 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | present | Bands | | | decisions's own slang | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | our kid | your brother or sister | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | your brother or sister | decisions's own slang *not said here* | | | | great *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | a galah | a fool | | Australia | | from a noisy pink parrot | tree rules | | 5 | **mean** | present | nah | no | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent no=Topic | | 6 | **mean** | present | fixin | | | | | in the southern US; about *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in us=Attribute | | 7 | **slang** | | decisions *= decision* | | | | | | 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:004-starting-a-band.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Starting a band, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/3/) - next →: [Starting a band, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/)