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title: "Bussin'" is Gen Alpha slang for great, and "well" in Leeds and much… — Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Bussin'" is Gen Alpha slang for great, and "well" in Leeds and much of England can mean "very". Who acts: Bussin, well. A sentence of the lesson «Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing, sentence 16

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"Bussin'" is Gen Alpha slang for great, and "well" in Leeds and much of England can mean "very".

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**Who acts:** Bussin, well · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** Gen slang

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing» 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 (Bussin, well), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:047-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing.lesson:16
# text = "Bussin'" is Gen Alpha slang for great, and "well" in Leeds and much of England can mean "very".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 047-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing.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 ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Bussin	Bussin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	Gen	Gen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	Alpha	Alpha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
14	well	well	NOUN	NN	_	23	nsubj	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	obj	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: other
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Bussin | Gen slang |  |  |  | for great | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | can | well in Leeds and much England |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent very=Topic |

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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:047-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing.lesson:16`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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