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title: Words people use: "bruv" means brother or mate (London), "no cap" me… — The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no" · tree and pragmatics
description: Words people use: "bruv" means brother or mate (London), "no cap" means honestly, "this is giving group punishment" means this looks like group punishment (young slang), "man" at the end of a sentence is just for emphasis, and "Sir" and "Miss" are what pupils call teachers in Britain. Who acts: peop
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# The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no", sentence 25

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Words people use: "bruv" means brother or mate (London), "no cap" means honestly, "this is giving group punishment" means this looks like group punishment (young slang), "man" at the end of a sentence is just for emphasis, and "Sir" and "Miss" are what pupils call teachers in Britain.

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**Who acts:** people, bruv, cap, this, man, Sir · **What happens:** use, mean, give, look, be, call · **To what, where:** Words, brother, group punishment, teachers, Britain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no"» 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 (people, bruv, cap, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:168-the-whole-class-punished-and-you-didnt-say-no.lesson:25
# text = Words people use: "bruv" means brother or mate (London), "no cap" means honestly, "this is giving group punishment" means this looks like group punishment (young slang), "man" at the end of a sentence is just for emphasis, and "Sir" and "Miss" are what pupils call teachers in Britain.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 168-the-whole-class-punished-and-you-didnt-say-no.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
13	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:appos
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
24	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:csubj
27	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
30	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
31	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nsubj	_	_
32	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	_
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	38	punct	_	_
37	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
39	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	38	punct	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	_
42	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
51	just	just	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
52	for	for	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	emphasis	emphasis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
56	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	57	punct	_	_
57	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	nsubj	_	_
58	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	57	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
60	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	61	punct	_	_
61	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=64:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
62	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	61	punct	_	_
63	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	64	cop	_	_
64	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	53	conj	_	_
65	pupils	pupil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	66	nsubj	_	_
66	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	64	acl:relcl	_	_
67	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	66	obj	_	_
68	in	in	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
69	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	66	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=67:nmod
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | people | Words |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 2 | **mean** | present | bruv | brother or mate |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic |
| 3 | **mean** | present | no cap |  |  |  |  | honestly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | present · progressive | this | group punishment |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punishment=Theme |
| 5 | **mean** | present | no cap *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **look** | present | this |  |  |  |  | like group punishment | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is** | present | man at the end of a sentence |  |  |  |  | for emphasis | tree rules |
| 8 | **is a** | present | Sir and Miss |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **call** | present | pupils |  | teachers | Britain |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |

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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:world:168-the-whole-class-punished-and-you-didnt-say-no.lesson:25`.

**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 ×3, R7-rel-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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