--- title: Words people use: "flippin'" is a mild swear word (UK), "proper" mea… — Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day · tree and pragmatics description: Words people use: "flippin'" is a mild swear word (UK), "proper" means very (UK), "bruv" means brother or mate (London), "fixin' to" means about to (southern USA) and "can or not?" means "is it possible?" (Singapore). Who acts: Words, flippin, proper, bruv. 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(Singapore). **Who acts:** Words, flippin, proper, bruv, fixin · **What happens:** use, be, mean · **To what, where:** mild swear word, brother, Singapore · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day» of the world 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 (Words, flippin, proper, bruv), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day.lesson:21 # text = Words people use: "flippin'" is a mild swear word (UK), "proper" means very (UK), "bruv" means brother or mate (London), "fixin' to" means about to (southern USA) and "can or not?" means "is it possible?" (Singapore). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day.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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:appos 3 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 advcl _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 flippin flippin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 7 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 mild mild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 swear swear NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 15 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advcl 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 22 very very ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 24 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nsubj 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 bruv bruv NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:appos 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 31 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 35 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:obj 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 38 " " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 39 fixin fixin NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj 40 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 3 obl _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ 43 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 44 about about ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 45 to to ADP IN _ 44 fixed _ _ 46 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 48 punct _ _ 47 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 49 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 48 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=43:punct 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 51 " " PUNCT `` _ 52 punct _ _ 52 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 53 or or CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 54 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 52 conj _ _ 55 ? ? PUNCT . _ 52 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 56 " " PUNCT '' _ 52 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 57 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 58 " " PUNCT `` _ 61 punct _ _ 59 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 61 cop _ _ 60 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 61 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=61:expl 61 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=57:obj 62 ? ? PUNCT . _ 61 punct _ _ 63 " " PUNCT '' _ 61 punct _ _ 64 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 65 punct _ _ 65 Singapore Singapore PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 obl _ _ 66 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 65 punct _ _ 67 . . PUNCT . _ 57 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Words | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | flippin | a mild swear word | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | proper | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **mean** | present | bruv | brother or mate | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic | | 5 | **mean** | present | fixin | | | | | about southern USA | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **mean** | present | | Singapore | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | fixin | | | | | possible *property* | tree rules | 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:world:104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day.lesson:21`. **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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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