--- title: Slang: «boss» (Liverpool) means great; «gutted» (Britain) means very… — Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries · tree and pragmatics description: Slang: «boss» (Liverpool) means great; «gutted» (Britain) means very disappointed; «ate» (Gen Z) means did brilliantly, as in «that letter ate». Who acts: Slang, ate, letter. 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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, ate, letter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:024-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries.lesson:27 # text = Slang: «boss» (Liverpool) means great; «gutted» (Britain) means very disappointed; «ate» (Gen Z) means did brilliantly, as in «that letter ate». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 024-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries.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 ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 2 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:appos 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 7 Liverpool Liverpool PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 gutted gut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 nsubj _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Britain Britain 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 very very ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 disappointed disappointed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 ate ate NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 26 Gen gen NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Z z NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 29 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 30 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 ccomp _ _ 31 brilliantly brilliantly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 as as SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 33 fixed _ _ 35 « « PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 36 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 det _ _ 37 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:conj 39 » » PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 . . 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 | great | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent great=Topic | | 2 | **gut** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | disappointed *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | present | ate | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **do** | past | | | | | | brilliantly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **eat** *in a quote* | past | that letter | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «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:024-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries.lesson:27`. **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 ×4, R8-pos-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. 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