--- title: Slang here: "my lover" (West Country) is a friendly way to call some… — Tu or vous? Manners in French · tree and pragmatics description: Slang here: "my lover" (West Country) is a friendly way to call someone dear; "lowkey" means a bit, secretly; "bruv" means mate; "thanks heaps" (Australia) means thanks a lot; "like" at the end of a Belfast question just adds a friendly tone. Who acts: lover, lowkey, bruv, thanks heaps. A sentence o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/) / [Tu or vous? Manners in French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french/) / 18 # Tu or vous? Manners in French, sentence 18 Slang here: "my lover" (West Country) is a friendly way to call someone dear; "lowkey" means a bit, secretly; "bruv" means mate; "thanks heaps" (Australia) means thanks a lot; "like" at the end of a Belfast question just adds a friendly tone. **Who acts:** lover, lowkey, bruv, thanks heaps, friendly tone · **What happens:** be, call, mean, add · **To what, where:** friendly way, someone, bit, mate, end · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Tu or vous? Manners in French» of the french 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 (lover, lowkey, bruv, thanks heaps), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:005-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french.lesson:18 # text = Slang here: "my lover" (West Country) is a friendly way to call someone dear; "lowkey" means a bit, secretly; "bruv" means mate; "thanks heaps" (Australia) means thanks a lot; "like" at the end of a Belfast question just adds a friendly tone. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 005-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 1 advmod _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 lover lover NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 9 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Country Country PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 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 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl _ _ 18 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 17 obj _ _ 19 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 lowkey lowkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 secretly secretly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 31 bruv bruv NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 34 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 37 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 heaps heap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 41 punct _ _ 41 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 appos _ _ 42 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 41 punct _ _ 43 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 44 thanks thanks ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 47 ; ; PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 48 " " PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ _ 49 like like INTJ UH _ 59 discourse _ _ 50 " " PUNCT '' _ 49 punct _ _ 51 at at ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 obl _ _ 54 of of ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 55 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 56 Belfast Belfast PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=57:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 57 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nmod _ _ 58 just just ADV RB _ 59 advmod _ _ 59 adds add VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 60 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 61 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ _ 62 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 obj _ _ 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 | **is a** | present | my lover | a friendly way | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **call** | to-infinitive | | | someone | | | dear *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient | | 3 | **mean** | present | lowkey | a bit | | | | secretly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Topic | | 4 | **mean** | present | bruv | mate | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic | | 5 | **mean** | present | thanks heaps | | | | | thanks a lot | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | a friendly tone | | | | at the end of a Belfast question | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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:005-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french.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 ×1, R8-pos-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: [Tu or vous? Manners in French, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french/17/) - next →: [Numbers 0 to 20, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/6-numbers-0-to-20/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french/)