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title: Talk in this lesson: «skibidi» = a silly word kids shout, meaning no… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Talk in this lesson: «skibidi» = a silly word kids shout, meaning nothing much; «wicked» (New England, USA) = very. Who acts: you, kids, silly word. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave» of the book
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# Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave, sentence 25

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Talk in this lesson: «skibidi» = a silly word kids shout, meaning nothing much; «wicked» (New England, USA) = very.

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**Who acts:** you, kids, silly word · **What happens:** talk, shout, mean, wick · **To what, where:** lesson, silly word, nothing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave» of the books 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 (you, kids, silly word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:090-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician.lesson:25
# text = Talk in this lesson: «skibidi» = a silly word kids shout, meaning nothing much; «wicked» (New England, USA) = very.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 090-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician.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
1	Talk	talk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	skibidi	skibidi	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	12	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
13	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	shout	shout	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	obj	_	_
18	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	wicked	wick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
24	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
25	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	parataxis	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
29	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	21	punct	_	_
30	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | this lesson |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | kids | a silly word *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 3 | **mean** | gerund | a silly word *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 4 | **wick** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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:books:090-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician.lesson:25`.

**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. **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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