--- title: In Boston and New England "wicked" means "very", so "wicked good" me… — Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, allit… · tree and pragmatics description: In Boston and New England "wicked" means "very", so "wicked good" means very good; in Liverpool a "like" at the end of a sentence is a filler word, not a comparison. Who acts: wicked, wicked good, like. 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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 (wicked, wicked good, like), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:046-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration.lesson:14 # text = In Boston and New England "wicked" means "very", so "wicked good" means very good; in Liverpool a "like" at the end of a sentence is a filler word, not a comparison. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 046-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Boston Boston PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 4 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 5 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 nsubj _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 very very ADV RB _ 9 ccomp _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 14 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 16 wicked wick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 nsubj _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 20 very very ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Liverpool Liverpool PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 27 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 nsubj _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 filler filler NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=38:punct 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 comparison comparison NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | wicked | | | | | in Boston and New England | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in boston=Attribute | | 2 | **mean** | present | wicked good | good | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Topic | | 3 | **is a** | present | a like at the end of a sentence | a filler word and a comparison | | Liverpool | | | tree rules | 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:046-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration.lesson:14`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×3, R8-pos-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. 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