--- title: Slang: «my lover» (West Country) is a friendly way to say love or ma… — Fronted adverbials · tree and pragmatics description: Slang: «my lover» (West Country) is a friendly way to say love or mate; «lowkey» means secretly or a bit; «bussin'» means really good; «y'all» (southern US) means you all. Who acts: Slang, love, lowkey. 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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, love, lowkey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:029-fronted-adverbials.lesson:23 # text = Slang: «my lover» (West Country) is a friendly way to say love or mate; «lowkey» means secretly or a bit; «bussin'» means really good; «y'all» (southern US) means you all. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 029-fronted-adverbials.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 2 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 lover lover NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 8 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Country Country PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 appos _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl _ _ 17 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 lowkey lowkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 24 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 25 secretly secretly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 31 bussin bussin NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 32 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 34 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 35 really really ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ _ 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 « « PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 39 y'all y'all ADV RB _ 45 nsubj _ _ 40 » » PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 41 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 42 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 appos _ _ 44 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 45 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 parataxis _ _ 46 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ _ 47 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 46 nmod:unmarked _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Slang and my lover | a friendly way | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | love or mate | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | lowkey | | | | | secretly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | present | lowkey *not said here* | | | | | good *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mean** | present | | you | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:029-fronted-adverbials.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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Fronted adverbials, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/29-fronted-adverbials/22/) - next →: [Relative clauses, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/30-relative-clauses/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/29-fronted-adverbials/)