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title: «Bruv» (London) means brother or mate; «craic» (Ireland) means fun o… — Big kids, little kids and the truth at home · tree and pragmatics
description: «Bruv» (London) means brother or mate; «craic» (Ireland) means fun or good times; «Mam» is Irish and northern English for Mum. Who acts: Bruv, craic, Mam. A sentence of the lesson «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 43

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«Bruv» (London) means brother or mate; «craic» (Ireland) means fun or good times; «Mam» is Irish and northern English for Mum.

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**Who acts:** Bruv, craic, Mam · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** brother

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» of the everyday 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 (Bruv, craic, Mam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:43
# text = «Bruv» (London) means brother or mate; «craic» (Ireland) means fun or good times; «Mam» is Irish and northern English for Mum.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.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): no change
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
5	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	craic	craic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
18	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
19	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Mam	mam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **mean** | present | Bruv | brother or mate |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | craic |  |  |  | time |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | Mam |  |  |  |  | irish *property* | tree rules |

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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:everyday:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:43`.

**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): no change. **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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