--- title: Words people use: "bruv" and "bro" (London, young people) mean mate;… — "If... then..." and its traps · tree and pragmatics description: Words people use: "bruv" and "bro" (London, young people) mean mate; "mardy" (Midlands, North) means sulky; "wee" (Scotland) means small; "aye" (Scotland, North) means yes; "Roblox" is a computer game; "my bad" means "my mistake". Who acts: people, mardy, wee, aye. 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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, mardy, wee, aye), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:184-if-then-and-its-traps.lesson:21 # text = Words people use: "bruv" and "bro" (London, young people) mean mate; "mardy" (Midlands, North) means sulky; "wee" (Scotland) means small; "aye" (Scotland, North) means yes; "Roblox" is a computer game; "my bad" means "my mistake". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 184-if-then-and-its-traps.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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 29 advcl _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 bruv bruv NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 13 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 18 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ _ 19 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 mardy Mardy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 25 Midlands midland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 appos _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 27 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 flat _ _ 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 29 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 30 sulky sulky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 33 wee wee NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 36 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 appos _ _ 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 38 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ _ 39 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 40 ; ; PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 " " PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ _ 42 aye aye NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ 44 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 45 punct _ _ 45 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 appos _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nmod:unmarked _ _ 48 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 45 punct _ _ 49 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ _ 50 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 49 obj _ _ 51 ; ; PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 52 " " PUNCT `` _ 53 punct _ _ 53 Roblox Roblox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 nsubj _ _ 54 " " PUNCT '' _ 53 punct _ _ 55 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 58 cop _ _ 56 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 57 computer computer NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 compound _ _ 58 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 parataxis _ _ 59 ; ; PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 60 " " PUNCT `` _ 62 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 61 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 62 nmod:poss _ _ 62 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 64 nsubj _ _ 63 " " PUNCT '' _ 62 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=64:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 64 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ _ 65 " " PUNCT `` _ 67 punct _ _ 66 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 67 nmod:poss _ _ 67 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 obj _ _ 68 " " PUNCT '' _ 67 punct _ _ 69 . . PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | people | Words | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | mate | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic | | 3 | **mean** | present | mardy | | | | | sulky *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | present | wee | | | | | small *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mean** | present | aye | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yes=Topic | | 6 | **is a** | present | Roblox | a computer game | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **mean** | present | my bad | my mistake | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Topic | | 8 | **mistake** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:184-if-then-and-its-traps.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: ["If... then..." and its traps, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/184-if-then-and-its-traps/20/) - next →: [Some, all, none and "not all", 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/185-some-all-none-and-not-all/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/184-if-then-and-its-traps/)