--- title: Words people use: "nah, I'm good" means no thanks, "bro" and "mate"… — Bets, dares and silly reasons · tree and pragmatics description: Words people use: "nah, I'm good" means no thanks, "bro" and "mate" mean friend, "mid" means not very good (young slang), "a fiver" is a five-pound note, "galaxy brain" is sarcastic for a silly idea, and "your face will fold in half" is a joke about the sour face lemons give you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, mid, fiver, galaxy brain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.lesson:19 # text = Words people use: "nah, I'm good" means no thanks, "bro" and "mate" mean friend, "mid" means not very good (young slang), "a fiver" is a five-pound note, "galaxy brain" is sarcastic for a silly idea, and "your face will fold in half" is a joke about the sour face lemons give you. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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 54 parataxis _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 6 nah nah INTJ UH _ 10 discourse _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 ccomp _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 13 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 14 det _ _ 14 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 24 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 27 mid mid X XX _ 29 nsubj _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 29 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 31 very very ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:ccomp 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 34 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 parataxis _ _ 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 38 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 fiver fiver NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 44 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 46 nummod _ _ 45 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 44 punct _ _ 46 pound pound NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 49 " " PUNCT `` _ 51 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 50 galaxy galaxy NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 51 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nsubj _ _ 52 " " PUNCT '' _ 51 punct _ _ 53 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 cop _ _ 54 sarcastic sarcastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 55 for for ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 56 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 57 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 amod _ _ 58 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obl _ _ 59 , , PUNCT , _ 71 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=54:punct 60 and and CCONJ CC _ 71 cc _ _ 61 " " PUNCT `` _ 65 punct _ _ 62 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 63 nmod:poss _ _ 63 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 nsubj _ _ 64 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 65 aux _ _ 65 fold fold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 71 csubj _ _ 66 in in ADP IN _ 67 case _ _ 67 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 65 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=71:obl 68 " " PUNCT '' _ 65 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=67:punct 69 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 71 cop _ _ 70 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 71 det _ _ 71 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 conj _ _ 72 about about SCONJ IN _ 77 mark _ _ 73 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 76 det _ _ 74 sour sour ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 76 amod _ _ 75 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 76 compound _ _ 76 lemons lemon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 77 nsubj _ _ 77 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 71 acl:relcl _ _ 78 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 77 iobj _ _ 79 . . PUNCT . _ 54 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | 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 | **is** *in a quote* | present | both people *= people* | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | | no thanks | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic | | 4 | **mean** | present | | friend | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic | | 5 | **mean** | present | mid | | | | | good *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | a fiver | a pound note | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | present | galaxy brain | | | | | for a silly idea; sarcastic *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **fold** *in a quote* | future | your face | | | half | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **be** *speech: other* | present | galaxy brain *not said here* | a joke | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **give** | present | the sour face lemons | a joke *not said here* | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | 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:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. 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