--- title: Slang in this lesson: in London youth slang «bare» means very or lot… — Homophones and near-homophones · tree and pragmatics description: Slang in this lesson: in London youth slang «bare» means very or lots of; «eejit» is Irish for idiot; «wee» is Scottish and Northern Irish for small. Who acts: youth slang, eejit, wee. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth slang, eejit, wee), 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:35 # text = Slang in this lesson: in London youth slang «bare» means very or lots of; «eejit» is Irish for idiot; «wee» is Scottish and Northern Irish for small. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 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 : _ 1 punct _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 8 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:compound 9 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 bare bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 14 very very ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 20 eejit eejit NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 Irish Irish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 idiot idiot NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 wee wee NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:nsubj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 29 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 Scottish Scottish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 Northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ _ 34 Irish Irish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | youth slang in London | lots | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic | | 2 | **is** | present | eejit | | | | | for idiot; irish *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | wee | | | | | scottish *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | wee *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | wee *not said here* | | | | | for small | tree rules | 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. **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:35`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Homophones and near-homophones, 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/11-homophones-and-near-homophones/34/) - next →: [Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-,…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/12-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/11-homophones-and-near-homophones/)