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title: People say it their own way: "beta" means son or child in Hindi, "mi… — Dances of the world and dancing at parties · tree and pragmatics
description: People say it their own way: "beta" means son or child in Hindi, "mijo" means my son in Spanish, "cringe" means embarrassing, and "chill vibes" means a calm, relaxed feeling. Who acts: People, beta, mijo, cringe. A sentence of the lesson «Dances of the world and dancing at parties» of the arts cours
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# Dances of the world and dancing at parties, sentence 4

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People say it their own way: "beta" means son or child in Hindi, "mijo" means my son in Spanish, "cringe" means embarrassing, and "chill vibes" means a calm, relaxed feeling.

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**Who acts:** People, beta, mijo, cringe, chill vibes · **What happens:** say, mean · **To what, where:** dancing, son, calm relaxed feeling · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dances of the world and dancing at parties» 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, beta, mijo, cringe), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:030-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties.lesson:4
# text = People say it their own way: "beta" means son or child in Hindi, "mijo" means my son in Spanish, "cringe" means embarrassing, and "chill vibes" means a calm, relaxed feeling.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 030-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1
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	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	beta	beta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Hindi	Hindi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	mijo	mijo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
28	cringe	cringe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
30	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
31	embarrassing	embarrassing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
35	chill	chill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	vibes	vibe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
38	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:det
40	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	relaxed	relaxed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:conj
44	.	.	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 | dancing |  |  |  | people's own way *obl:unmarked* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | beta | son or child |  |  |  | in Hindi | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot son=Theme in hindi=Attribute |
| 3 | **mean** | present | mijo | my son |  |  |  | in Spanish | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot son=Theme in spanish=Attribute |
| 4 | **mean** | present | cringe |  |  |  |  | embarrassing *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **mean** | present | chill vibes | a calm relaxed feeling |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Topic |

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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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-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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