--- title: Slang in this lesson: «boomer» is slang for older people (properly,… — How to learn spellings that stick · tree and pragmatics description: Slang in this lesson: «boomer» is slang for older people (properly, people born in the years after the Second World War); «toque» is Canadian for a woolly hat; «eh» is a Canadian way to end a sentence; «my lover» is a friendly West Country greeting, and «proper job» there means well done. 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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 (boomer, older people, toque, eh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:015-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick.lesson:26 # text = Slang in this lesson: «boomer» is slang for older people (properly, people born in the years after the Second World War); «toque» is Canadian for a woolly hat; «eh» is a Canadian way to end a sentence; «my lover» is a friendly West Country greeting, and «proper job» there means well done. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 015-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Slang slang NOUN NN _ 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 : _ 10 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 boomer boomer NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 amod _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 15 properly properly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 after after ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 Second Second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 26 amod _ _ 25 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 War War PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 « « PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 30 toque toque NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 Canadian Canadian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 34 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 woolly woolly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 hat hat NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 ; ; PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 39 « « PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ _ 40 eh eh NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 41 » » PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:punct|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 Canadian Canadian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 47 end end VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 acl _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ _ 50 ; ; PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 51 « « PUNCT `` _ 53 punct _ _ 52 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 53 nmod:poss _ _ 53 lover lover NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=60:obl 54 » » PUNCT '' _ 53 punct _ _ 55 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 60 cop _ _ 56 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 57 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 60 amod _ _ 58 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 59 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=60:compound 59 Country Country PROPN NNP Number=Sing 60 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=60:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 60 greeting greeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 61 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 65 cc _ _ 63 « « PUNCT `` _ 65 punct _ _ 64 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 65 amod _ _ 65 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 conj _ _ 66 » » PUNCT '' _ 65 punct _ _ 67 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 68 expl _ _ 68 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl:relcl _ _ 69 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 70 advmod _ _ 70 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 68 xcomp _ _ 71 . . 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 | **is a** | present | boomer | slang | | | | for older people | tree rules | | 2 | **bear** | participle · passive | older people *not said here* | people | | | year | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | toque | | | | | for a woolly hat; canadian *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | eh | a Canadian way | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **end** | to-infinitive | | a sentence | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality sentence=Eventuality | | 6 | **is a** | present | my lover | a friendly Country greeting and proper job | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **mean** | present | | | | there | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **do** *not said to happen* | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:015-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick.lesson:26`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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