--- title: Slang here: "bro" means mate; "mint" (North of England) means great;… — Dates and birthdays · tree and pragmatics description: Slang here: "bro" means mate; "mint" (North of England) means great; "our kid" (Liverpool) means my brother; "grand" (Ireland) means fine or good; "eh" (Canada) asks you to agree; "proper job" (West Country) means great; "posh" means fancy. Who acts: bro, mint, kid, grand. 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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 (bro, mint, kid, grand), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:011-dates-and-birthdays.lesson:17 # text = Slang here: "bro" means mate; "mint" (North of England) means great; "our kid" (Liverpool) means my brother; "grand" (Ireland) means fine or good; "eh" (Canada) asks you to agree; "proper job" (West Country) means great; "posh" means fancy. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 011-dates-and-birthdays.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 1 advmod _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 8 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 mint mint NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:appos 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 14 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nsubj 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 18 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 19 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 22 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Liverpool Liverpool PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:nmod 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 28 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 33 grand grand NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 36 Ireland Ireland 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 28 parataxis _ _ 39 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ _ 40 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 conj _ _ 42 ; ; PUNCT : _ 44 punct _ _ 43 " " PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ _ 44 eh eh NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:parataxis 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ _ 46 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 47 punct _ _ 47 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 48 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 47 punct _ _ 49 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 50 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 49 obj _ _ 51 to to PART TO _ 52 mark _ _ 52 agree agree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 49 xcomp _ _ 53 ; ; PUNCT : _ 62 punct _ _ 54 " " PUNCT `` _ 56 punct _ _ 55 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 56 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=62:dislocated 57 " " PUNCT '' _ 56 punct _ _ 58 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 60 punct _ _ 59 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 60 compound _ _ 60 Country Country PROPN NNP Number=Sing 56 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=62:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 61 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 60 punct _ _ 62 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 63 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 xcomp _ _ 64 ; ; PUNCT : _ 68 punct _ _ 65 " " PUNCT `` _ 66 punct _ _ 66 posh posh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 68 nsubj _ _ 67 " " PUNCT '' _ 66 punct _ _ 68 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 62 parataxis _ _ 69 fancy fancy NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 obj _ _ 70 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | bro | mate | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | present | mint | | | | | great *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | our kid | my brother | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic | | 4 | **mean** | present | grand | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | eh | | you | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **agree** *speech: agree* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | eh *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **mean** | present | proper job | | | | | great *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **mean** | present | posh | fancy | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=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:011-dates-and-birthdays.lesson:17`. **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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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: [Dates and birthdays, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/11-dates-and-birthdays/16/) - next →: [Telling the time, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/12-telling-the-time/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/11-dates-and-birthdays/)