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title: Slang check: "bro" means mate; "for real" means truly. — Olympiad practice: the hardest cases · tree and pragmatics
description: Slang check: "bro" means mate; "for real" means truly. Who acts: bro, real. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad practice: the hardest cases» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Olympiad practice: the hardest cases, sentence 18

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Slang check: "bro" means mate; "for real" means truly.

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**Who acts:** bro, real · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** mate

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad practice: the hardest cases» of the religion ethics 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 (bro, real), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases.lesson:18
# text = Slang check: "bro" means mate; "for real" means truly.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases.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	Slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nsubj	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
15	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	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 | **mean** | present | bro | mate |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | real |  |  |  |  | truly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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:religion-ethics:100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases.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): 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/).

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