--- title: "brb" means be right back, "gtg" means got to go, and "ttyl" means t… — Texting, abbreviations and emoji · tree and pragmatics description: "brb" means be right back, "gtg" means got to go, and "ttyl" means talk to you later. Who acts: brb, gtg, ttyl. A sentence of the lesson «Texting, abbreviations and emoji» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/12/) [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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Texting, abbreviations and emoji](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/) / 12 # Texting, abbreviations and emoji, sentence 12 "brb" means be right back, "gtg" means got to go, and "ttyl" means talk to you later. **Who acts:** brb, gtg, ttyl · **What happens:** mean, be, get, go, talk · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Texting, abbreviations and emoji» of the language 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 (brb, gtg, ttyl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:030-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji.lesson:12 # text = "brb" means be right back, "gtg" means got to go, and "ttyl" means talk to you later. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 030-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 brb brb NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 6 right right ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 back back ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 10 gtg gtg NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 13 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 ccomp _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 ttyl ttyl NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 22 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 25 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | brb | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | infinitive | | | | | | back, right *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | gtg | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **get** | participle | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **go** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **mean** | present | ttyl | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **talk** | infinitive | | | you | | | late *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Agent | 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:030-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji.lesson:12`. **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): 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: [Texting, abbreviations and emoji, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/11/) - next →: [Texting, abbreviations and emoji, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/)