--- title: Slang: «tamping» (Wales) means furious; «lowkey» means a bit, or sec… — Inference: reading between the lines · tree and pragmatics description: Slang: «tamping» (Wales) means furious; «lowkey» means a bit, or secretly; «it's giving bitter» (Gen Z) means it seems bitter. Who acts: Slang, lowkey, giving, it. 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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, lowkey, giving, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:018-inference-reading-between-the-lines.lesson:23 # text = Slang: «tamping» (Wales) means furious; «lowkey» means a bit, or secretly; «it's giving bitter» (Gen Z) means it seems bitter. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 018-inference-reading-between-the-lines.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 2 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 tamping tamping NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:appos|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 7 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 furious furious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 lowkey lowkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 secretly secretly ADV RB _ 15 conj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 csubj _ _ 26 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 obj _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 29 Gen gen NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 Z z NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 parataxis _ _ 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 32 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 ccomp _ _ 35 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Slang | | | | | furious *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | lowkey | a bit | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Topic | | 3 | **give** *in a quote* | present · progressive | lowkey | bitter | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | giving | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **seem** | present | it | | | | | bitter *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | 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:018-inference-reading-between-the-lines.lesson:23`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-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: [Inference: reading between the lines, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/18-inference-reading-between-the-lines/22/) - next →: [Prediction: what happens next, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/19-prediction-what-happens-next/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/18-inference-reading-between-the-lines/)