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title: Slang: «heaps» (Australian) means many; «sound» (Liverpool) means fi… — Retrieval: finding the answer in the text · tree and pragmatics
description: Slang: «heaps» (Australian) means many; «sound» (Liverpool) means fine or good; «skibidi» is a word some children shout that has no real meaning. Who acts: Slang, sound, skibidi, children. A sentence of the lesson «Retrieval: finding the answer in the text» of the english course of Mova's primary sc
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# Retrieval: finding the answer in the text, sentence 25

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Slang: «heaps» (Australian) means many; «sound» (Liverpool) means fine or good; «skibidi» is a word some children shout that has no real meaning.

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**Who acts:** Slang, sound, skibidi, children, that · **What happens:** mean, skibidi, be, shout, have · **To what, where:** many, word, real meaning · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Retrieval: finding the answer in the text» 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, sound, skibidi, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:017-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text.lesson:25
# text = Slang: «heaps» (Australian) means many; «sound» (Liverpool) means fine or good; «skibidi» is a word some children shout that has no real meaning.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 017-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text.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, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:appos
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
9	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:parataxis
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
18	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
23	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
24	skibidi	skibidi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	24	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	parataxis	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	shout	shout	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:parataxis
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
33	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	ccomp	_	_
34	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	det	_	_
35	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Slang | many |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | sound |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **skibidi** *in a quote* |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | skibidi | a word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | some children | a word *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | present | that | no real meaning |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Patient |

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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:017-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text.lesson:25`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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