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title: People say it their own way: "cooked" in Australia means ruined or w… — AI pictures and AI music, as reported · tree and pragmatics
description: People say it their own way: "cooked" in Australia means ruined or wrong, "slaps" means sounds great, "sheesh" means wow, "laoshi" is Chinese for teacher, and "boomer" is a cheeky word for an older person who dislikes new things. Who acts: People, slaps, laoshi, boomer. A sentence of the lesson «AI 
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# AI pictures and AI music, as reported, sentence 4

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People say it their own way: "cooked" in Australia means ruined or wrong, "slaps" means sounds great, "sheesh" means wow, "laoshi" is Chinese for teacher, and "boomer" is a cheeky word for an older person who dislikes new things.

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**Who acts:** People, slaps, laoshi, boomer, older person · **What happens:** say, cook, mean, be, dislike · **To what, where:** light, sounds, cheeky word, new things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «AI pictures and AI music, as reported» 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, slaps, laoshi, boomer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:036-ai-pictures-and-ai-music-as-reported.lesson:4
# text = People say it their own way: "cooked" in Australia means ruined or wrong, "slaps" means sounds great, "sheesh" means wow, "laoshi" is Chinese for teacher, and "boomer" is a cheeky word for an older person who dislikes new things.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 036-ai-pictures-and-ai-music-as-reported.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	nsubj	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
14	ruined	ruin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	slaps	slap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
22	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:amod
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
26	sheesh	sheesh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
29	wow	wow	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:discourse
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
32	laoshi	laoshi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	ccomp	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	_
41	boomer	boomer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
43	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
47	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	50	amod	_	_
50	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
51	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	52	nsubj	_	_
52	dislikes	dislike	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	acl:relcl	_	_
53	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obj	_	_
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21: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 | light |  |  |  | people's own way *obl:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cook** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | in Australia | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in australia=Instrument |
| 3 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | ruin *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mean** | present | slaps | sounds |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Topic |
| 5 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | laoshi |  |  |  |  | for teacher; chinese *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is a** | present | boomer | a cheeky word |  |  |  | for a older person | tree rules |
| 8 | **dislike** | present | a older person | new things |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |

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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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

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