--- title: Slang in this lesson: «bruv» means brother or mate and «peak» means… — Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -s… · tree and pragmatics description: Slang in this lesson: «bruv» means brother or mate and «peak» means bad luck or annoying (London); «grand» means fine and «yer man» means «that fella» (Ireland); «it's giving» means «it seems like» (Gen Alpha and Gen Z). Who acts: bruv, peak, grand, yer man. 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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 (bruv, peak, grand, yer man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:008-endings-that-sound-like-shun.lesson:27 # text = Slang in this lesson: «bruv» means brother or mate and «peak» means bad luck or annoying (London); «grand» means fine and «yer man» means «that fella» (Ireland); «it's giving» means «it seems like» (Gen Alpha and Gen Z). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 008-endings-that-sound-like-shun.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Slang slang NOUN NN _ 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 lesson lesson NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:obl 5 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 bruv bruv X GW _ 9 nsubj _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 10 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 peak peak NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 18 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 annoying annoy VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 conj _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 23 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 « « PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 27 grand grand X GW _ 29 nsubj _ _ 28 » » PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 30 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 « « PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 33 yer y X GW _ 34 flat _ _ 34 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 36 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 37 « « PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 38 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 39 det _ _ 39 fella fella NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 » » PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 41 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 42 punct _ _ 42 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 appos _ _ 43 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 42 punct _ _ 44 ; ; PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 45 « « PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ _ 46 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 47 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 50 csubj _ _ 49 » » PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ _ 50 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 51 « « PUNCT `` _ 53 punct _ _ 52 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 53 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=50:conj 54 like like ADP IN _ 53 advmod _ _ 55 » » PUNCT '' _ 53 punct _ _ 56 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 57 punct _ _ 57 Gen Gen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 obl _ _ 58 Alpha Alpha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 flat _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 60 Gen Gen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 61 compound _ _ 61 Z z NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=57:conj 62 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 58 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=53:punct 63 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | bruv | brother or mate | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | present | peak | bad luck | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Topic | | 3 | **annoy** | gerund | peak *not said here* | London | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus london=Experiencer | | 4 | **mean** | present | grand | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mean** | present | yer man | that fella | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fella=Topic | | 6 | **give** *in a quote* | present · progressive | peak | | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **mean** | present | giving | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **seem** *in a quote* | present | it | Gen | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | 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:english:008-endings-that-sound-like-shun.lesson:27`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion,…, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/26/) - next →: [Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/)