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title: Bruv, real people waited about 290,000 years.» (Bruv is London slang… — How we got here: the big steps on one long timel… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, real people waited about 290,000 years.» (Bruv is London slang for brother or mate.) Who acts: real people, Bruv. A sentence of the lesson «How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline, sentence 2

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Bruv, real people waited about 290,000 years.» (Bruv is London slang for brother or mate.)

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**Who acts:** real people, Bruv · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** London slang · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline» of the history 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 (real people, Bruv), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.lesson:2
# text = Bruv, real people waited about 290,000 years.» (Bruv is London slang for brother or mate.)
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	290,000	290,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
12	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc
19	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | real people |  |  |  | year | Bruv *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Bruv | London slang |  |  |  | for brother or mate | 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:history:061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.lesson:2`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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/).

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