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title: «It's just banter, innit,» he says afterwards — banter means jokey t… — Nice alone, mean in a group · tree and pragmatics
description: «It's just banter, innit,» he says afterwards — banter means jokey teasing. Who acts: audience, Sam, banter. A sentence of the lesson «Nice alone, mean in a group» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nice alone, mean in a group, sentence 6

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«It's just banter, innit,» he says afterwards — banter means jokey teasing.

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**Who acts:** audience, Sam, banter · **What happens:** be, say, mean · **To what, where:** banter, jokey teasing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Nice alone, mean in a group» 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 (audience, Sam, banter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group.lesson:6
# text = «It's just banter, innit,» he says afterwards — banter means jokey teasing.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group.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, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	banter	banter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:parataxis
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	innit	innit	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod
13	—	—	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
14	banter	banter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:parataxis
16	jokey	jokey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	teasing	tease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | audience | banter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Sam |  |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **mean** | present | banter | jokey teasing |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tease=Topic |

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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:468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group.lesson:6`.

**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, 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/).

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