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title: "Got done" is British slang for being tricked in a deal. — Swaps and barter in the playground · tree and pragmatics
description: "Got done" is British slang for being tricked in a deal. A sentence of the lesson «Swaps and barter in the playground» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Swaps and barter in the playground, sentence 15

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"Got done" is British slang for being tricked in a deal.

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**What happens:** get, be, trick · **To what, where:** British slang, deal

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Swaps and barter in the playground» of the money 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:004-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground.lesson:15
# text = "Got done" is British slang for being tricked in a deal.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 004-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground.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 ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	nsubj	_	_
3	done	done	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	tricked	trick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  | done *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | British slang |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **trick** | gerund · passive |  | British slang *not said here* |  | a deal |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP» |

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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:money:004-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground.lesson:15`.

**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 ×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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