--- title: Slang in this lesson: «fixin' to» means «about to» in the US South;… — Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-,… · tree and pragmatics description: Slang in this lesson: «fixin' to» means «about to» in the US South; «love» is a friendly way to address someone in much of Britain. Who acts: Slang, love. A sentence of the lesson «Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-, il-, ir-» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/12-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir/24/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/12-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir/) / 24 # Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-, il-, ir-, sentence 24 Slang in this lesson: «fixin' to» means «about to» in the US South; «love» is a friendly way to address someone in much of Britain. **Who acts:** Slang, love · **What happens:** fix, mean, be, address · **To what, where:** friendly way, someone, much · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-, il-, ir-» 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 (Slang, love), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:012-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir.lesson:24 # text = Slang in this lesson: «fixin' to» means «about to» in the US South; «love» is a friendly way to address someone in much of Britain. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 012-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir.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): no change 1 Slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 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 11 obl _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 fixin fix VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 nsubj _ _ 8 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 11 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 address address VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ _ 30 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 29 obj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fix** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | Slang | | | | | in this lesson | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot about=Theme in lesson=Attribute | | 3 | **is a** | present | love | a friendly way | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **address** | to-infinitive | Slang *not said here* | | someone | much of Britain | | | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Destination | 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:012-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir.lesson:24`. **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): no change. **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: [Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-,…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/12-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir/21/) - next →: [Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutor…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/13-words-to-know-years-3-4/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/12-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir/)