--- title: People react in their own slang: in Britain "manky" means dirty or g… — Famous paintings and the stories behind them · tree and pragmatics description: People react in their own slang: in Britain "manky" means dirty or gross and "proper cracking up" means laughing a lot; "lit" means exciting, and "grim" means horrible. Who acts: People, manky, lit, grim. 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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, manky, lit, grim), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:015-famous-paintings-and-the-stories-behind-them.lesson:4 # text = People react in their own slang: in Britain "manky" means dirty or gross and "proper cracking up" means laughing a lot; "lit" means exciting, and "grim" means horrible. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 015-famous-paintings-and-the-stories-behind-them.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 react react VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 manky manky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 nsubj _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 14 dirty dirty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:xcomp 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 gross gross ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 20 cracking crack VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 23 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 24 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 xcomp _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 29 lit lit NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 32 exciting exciting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 36 grim grim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 nsubj _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:conj 39 horrible horrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **react** | present | People | | | People's own slang | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | manky | dirty | | | | in Britain | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot dirty=Theme in britain=Attribute | | 3 | **crack up** *in a quote* | gerund | manky *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **mean** | present | manky *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **laugh** *not said to happen* | gerund | manky *not said here* | a lot | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **mean** | present | lit | | | | | exciting *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **mean** | present | grim | | | | | horrible *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **slang** | | People | | | | | | nom slang «communication transitive»: 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:arts:015-famous-paintings-and-the-stories-behind-them.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): R5-strong ×2, 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. 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