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title: In London slang "bare" means very or lots of, as in "bare tired". — Tense consistency and verb forms · tree and pragmatics
description: In London slang "bare" means very or lots of, as in "bare tired". Who acts: bare. A sentence of the lesson «Tense consistency and verb forms» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tense consistency and verb forms, sentence 17

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In London slang "bare" means very or lots of, as in "bare tired".

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**Who acts:** bare · **What happens:** mean, bear · **To what, where:** lots · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tense consistency and verb forms» 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 (bare), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:031-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms.lesson:17
# text = In London slang "bare" means very or lots of, as in "bare tired".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 031-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms.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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	bare	bare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
14	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	bare	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
17	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | bare | lots |  |  |  | in London slang | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme in slang=Attribute |
| 2 | **bear** *in a quote* | infinitive | bare *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:031-tense-consistency-and-verb-forms.lesson:17`.

**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): no change. **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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