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title: Slang check: "howay" (Newcastle) means come on; "bare" (London) mean… — Keeping promises · tree and pragmatics
description: Slang check: "howay" (Newcastle) means come on; "bare" (London) means lots of. Who acts: Slang check, bare. A sentence of the lesson «Keeping promises» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Keeping promises, sentence 19

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Slang check: "howay" (Newcastle) means come on; "bare" (London) means lots of.

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**Who acts:** Slang check, bare · **What happens:** mean, come on · **To what, where:** lots · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Keeping promises» 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 (Slang check, bare), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:086-keeping-promises.lesson:19
# text = Slang check: "howay" (Newcastle) means come on; "bare" (London) means lots of.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 086-keeping-promises.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	howay	howay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:appos
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Newcastle	Newcastle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:ccomp
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
18	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
21	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: other
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Slang check |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come on** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **mean** | present | bare | lots |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic |

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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:086-keeping-promises.lesson:19`.

**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): R5-strong ×3, 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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