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title: In London youth slang «bare» means very or lots of: «That party was… — Homophones and near-homophones · tree and pragmatics
description: In London youth slang «bare» means very or lots of: «That party was bare good». Who acts: bare, party. A sentence of the lesson «Homophones and near-homophones» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Homophones and near-homophones, sentence 18

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In London youth slang «bare» means very or lots of: «That party was bare good».

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**Who acts:** bare, party · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** lots · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Homophones and near-homophones» of the english 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 (bare, party), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:011-homophones-and-near-homophones.lesson:18
# text = In London youth slang «bare» means very or lots of: «That party was bare good».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 011-homophones-and-near-homophones.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 ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
6	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
15	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	bare	bare	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | bare | lots |  |  |  | in youth slang | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme in slang=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | that party |  |  |  |  | bare, good *property* | 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:english:011-homophones-and-near-homophones.lesson:18`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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