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title: Gen Alpha children shout "skibidi" as a funny word that means nothin… — Openings that hook the reader · tree and pragmatics
description: Gen Alpha children shout "skibidi" as a funny word that means nothing in particular. Who acts: Gen children, funny word. A sentence of the lesson «Openings that hook the reader» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Openings that hook the reader, sentence 18

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Gen Alpha children shout "skibidi" as a funny word that means nothing in particular.

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**Who acts:** Gen children, funny word · **What happens:** shout, mean · **To what, where:** skibidi, nothing

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Openings that hook the reader» 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 (Gen children, funny word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:040-openings-that-hook-the-reader.lesson:18
# text = Gen Alpha children shout "skibidi" as a funny word that means nothing in particular.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 040-openings-that-hook-the-reader.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	Gen	Gen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Alpha	Alpha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shout	shout	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	skibidi	skibidi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Gen children | skibidi |  |  |  | as a funny word | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skibidi=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | a funny word | nothing |  |  |  | in particular | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme in particular=Attribute |

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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:040-openings-that-hook-the-reader.lesson:18`.

**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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