--- title: Slang in this lesson: "plonker" (UK) is a silly person; "our kid" (N… — Silent letters: why French doesn't say everythin… · tree and pragmatics description: Slang in this lesson: "plonker" (UK) is a silly person; "our kid" (North of England) means my brother or sister; "ken" (Scotland) means "you know"; "sus" means odd or suspicious; "bruv" means mate. Who acts: plonker, kid, ken, you. 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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 (plonker, kid, ken, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:001-silent-letters-why-french-doesnt-say-everything-it-writes.lesson:18 # text = Slang in this lesson: "plonker" (UK) is a silly person; "our kid" (North of England) means my brother or sister; "ken" (Scotland) means "you know"; "sus" means odd or suspicious; "bruv" means mate. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 001-silent-letters-why-french-doesnt-say-everything-it-writes.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3 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 obl _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 plonker plonker PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 10 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:ccomp 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 18 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 22 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 26 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 27 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 33 ken Ken PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 36 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 appos _ _ 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 38 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 39 " " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 ccomp _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 43 ; ; PUNCT : _ 47 punct _ _ 44 " " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ _ 45 sus sus NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ _ 47 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 parataxis _ _ 48 odd odd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 xcomp _ _ 49 or or CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 suspicious suspicious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 conj _ _ 51 ; ; PUNCT : _ 55 punct _ _ 52 " " PUNCT `` _ 53 punct _ _ 53 bruv bruv NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nsubj _ _ 54 " " PUNCT '' _ 53 punct _ _ 55 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=47:conj 56 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obj _ _ 57 . . 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 | **is a** | present | plonker | a silly person | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | our kid | my brother or sister | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic | | 3 | **mean** | present | ken | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **know** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **mean** | present | sus | | | | | odd *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **mean** | present | bruv | mate | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic | 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:french:001-silent-letters-why-french-doesnt-say-everything-it-writes.lesson:18`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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. 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