--- title: Slang: «lush» (Wales) means lovely; «mid» means average. — Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures · tree and pragmatics description: Slang: «lush» (Wales) means lovely; «mid» means average. Who acts: lush, mid. A sentence of the lesson «Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/30/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Reading poems: meaning, sound and pict…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/) / 30 # Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures, sentence 30 Slang: «lush» (Wales) means lovely; «mid» means average. **Who acts:** lush, mid · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** average This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures» 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 (lush, mid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:025-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures.lesson:30 # text = Slang: «lush» (Wales) means lovely; «mid» means average. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 025-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 dislocated _ _ 2 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 lush lush NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 7 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 mid mid 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 average average ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:xcomp 17 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | lush | | | | | Slang *dislocated*; lovely *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | mid | average | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent average=Topic | 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:025-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures.lesson:30`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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: [Reading poems: meaning, sound and pict…, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/29/) - next →: [Sentences: capital letters, full stops…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/26-sentences-capital-letters-full-stops-and-the-four-types/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/)