--- title: Slang is a real part of language with shared meanings: "bruv" is Lon… — What language is: sounds, words and rules everyo… · tree and pragmatics description: Slang is a real part of language with shared meanings: "bruv" is London slang for mate or brother, "fr" means for real, and "no cap" means no lie. Who acts: Slang, bruv, fr, cap. 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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 (Slang, bruv, fr, cap), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:001-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules.lesson:11 # text = Slang is a real part of language with shared meanings: "bruv" is London slang for mate or brother, "fr" means for real, and "no cap" means no lie. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 001-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules.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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 10 meanings meaning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 bruv bruv NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 fr fr NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 32 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 33 det _ _ 33 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 36 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 37 det _ _ 37 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Slang | a real part | | | | of language with shared meanings | tree rules | | 2 | **share** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | bruv | London slang | | | | for mate or brother | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | fr | | | | | for real | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for real=Attribute | | 5 | **mean** | present | no cap | no lie | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=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:language:001-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules.lesson:11`. **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): R6-punct-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. 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