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title: People say it their way: "trash" means rubbish, "it's a vibe" is a j… — Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes · tree and pragmatics
description: People say it their way: "trash" means rubbish, "it's a vibe" is a joke for "interesting", and "kiddo" is a friendly word for a child. Who acts: People, trash, acrylic, vibe. A sentence of the lesson «Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes, sentence 4

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People say it their way: "trash" means rubbish, "it's a vibe" is a joke for "interesting", and "kiddo" is a friendly word for a child.

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**Who acts:** People, trash, acrylic, vibe, kiddo · **What happens:** say, mean, be · **To what, where:** acrylic, rubbish, vibe, joke, friendly word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes» of the arts 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, trash, acrylic, vibe), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:014-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes.lesson:4
# text = People say it their way: "trash" means rubbish, "it's a vibe" is a joke for "interesting", and "kiddo" is a friendly word for a child.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 014-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	trash	trash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
11	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	vibe	vibe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
24	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obl
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
29	kiddo	kiddo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | People | acrylic |  |  |  | People's way *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | trash | rubbish |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rubbish=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | acrylic | a vibe |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *speech: other* | present | a vibe | a joke and a friendly word |  |  |  | for interesting | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | kiddo | a friendly word |  |  |  | for a child | tree rules |

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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:arts:014-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes.lesson:4`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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