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title: People talk about it in their own slang: "bummer" is older US slang… — Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso… · tree and pragmatics
description: People talk about it in their own slang: "bummer" is older US slang for a disappointment, "sus" means suspicious or odd, and a "glow-up" is a big change for the better. Who acts: People, bummer, sus, glow up. A sentence of the lesson «Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai, Biloku
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# Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai, Bilokur, Prymachenko, Qi Baishi...), sentence 4

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People talk about it in their own slang: "bummer" is older US slang for a disappointment, "sus" means suspicious or odd, and a "glow-up" is a big change for the better.

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**Who acts:** People, bummer, sus, glow up · **What happens:** talk, be, mean, slang · **To what, where:** own slang, older US slang, big change

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai, Bilokur, Prymachenko, Qi Baishi...)» 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, bummer, sus, glow up), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:016-famous-artists-simply.lesson:4
# text = People talk about it in their own slang: "bummer" is older US slang for a disappointment, "sus" means suspicious or odd, and a "glow-up" is a big change for the better.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 016-famous-artists-simply.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	bummer	bummer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
15	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
22	sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
25	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	ccomp	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
32	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	_
34	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	39	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:obl
43	.	.	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 | **talk** | present | People |  |  | people's own slang |  | about art | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | bummer | older US slang |  |  |  | for a disappointment | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present | sus |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | a glow up | a big change |  |  |  | for the better | tree rules |
| 5 | **slang** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom slang «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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, 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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