--- title: In Australian English "heaps" means lots or very; in Gen Z slang "ma… — Describing: senses, showing and precise words · tree and pragmatics description: In Australian English "heaps" means lots or very; in Gen Z slang "main character energy" means acting like the star of a film. Who acts: main character energy. 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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 (main character energy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.lesson:15 # text = In Australian English "heaps" means lots or very; in Gen Z slang "main character energy" means acting like the star of a film. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.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 ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 Australian Australian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 heaps heap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 very very ADV RB _ 8 conj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 Gen gen NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 14 Z z NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 17 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 character character NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 22 acting act VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 ccomp _ _ 23 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | | lots | | | | in Australian English and heaps | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme in english=Attribute | | 2 | **mean** | present | main character energy | | | Gen Z slang | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **act** | gerund | | | | | | like the star of a film | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like star=Attribute | 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:041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.lesson:15`. **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 ×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. 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