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title: Slang: «sus» means suspicious; «bet» (US) can mean «I'm sure» or «OK… — Prediction: what happens next · tree and pragmatics
description: Slang: «sus» means suspicious; «bet» (US) can mean «I'm sure» or «OK»; «gonna» means going to; «mid» means average, nothing special. Who acts: Slang, character, gonna, mid. A sentence of the lesson «Prediction: what happens next» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Prediction: what happens next, sentence 23

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Slang: «sus» means suspicious; «bet» (US) can mean «I'm sure» or «OK»; «gonna» means going to; «mid» means average, nothing special.

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**Who acts:** Slang, character, gonna, mid · **What happens:** mean, bet, be, go · **To what, where:** average · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Prediction: what happens next» 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, character, gonna, mid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:019-prediction-what-happens-next.lesson:23
# text = Slang: «sus» means suspicious; «bet» (US) can mean «I'm sure» or «OK»; «gonna» means going to; «mid» means average, nothing special.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 019-prediction-what-happens-next.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bet	bet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
13	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	_
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
24	OK	ok	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
28	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	30	nsubj	_	_
29	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
30	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
31	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:ccomp
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	fixed	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
34	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
35	mid	mid	X	AFX	_	37	nsubj	_	_
36	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
37	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
38	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:xcomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	37	conj	_	_
41	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Slang |  |  |  |  | suspicious *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bet** *in a quote* | infinitive | Slang *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn risk-94 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **mean** | can | Slang *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a character *= character* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* |  | a character *= character* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **mean** | present | gonna |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **go** *not said to happen* | gerund | gonna *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **mean** | present | mid | average |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent average=Topic |

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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:019-prediction-what-happens-next.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): R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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