--- title: Slang: «cringe» means embarrassing; «y'all» (southern US) means you… — Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home · tree and pragmatics description: Slang: «cringe» means embarrassing; «y'all» (southern US) means you all; «that book ate» (Gen Z slang) means it was excellent. Who acts: Slang, book. 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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 (Slang, book), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:016-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home.lesson:26 # text = Slang: «cringe» means embarrassing; «y'all» (southern US) means you all; «that book ate» (Gen Z slang) means it was excellent. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 016-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 cringe cringe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 acl:relcl _ _ 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 7 embarrassing embarrassing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 10 y'all y'all ADV RB _ 6 nsubj _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 13 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nsubj 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 17 nmod:unmarked _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 21 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 22 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 26 Gen Gen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 27 Z z PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 28 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 30 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 excellent excellent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 ccomp _ _ 34 . . 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 | **cringe** *in a quote* | infinitive | Slang *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | embarrassing *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | | you | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | | 4 | **eat** *in a quote* | past | that book | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | past | book | | | | | excellent *property* | 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:016-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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