--- title: Slang to know: in Liverpool "proper" means really and "our kid" mean… — Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic" · tree and pragmatics description: Slang to know: in Liverpool "proper" means really and "our kid" means my brother or sister; Gen Alpha "it's giving doom" means "it feels like doom"; in Newcastle "divvent" means don't and "canny" means quite or nice. Who acts: proper, kid, Gen, divvent. 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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 (proper, kid, Gen, divvent), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:053-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic.lesson:16 # text = Slang to know: in Liverpool "proper" means really and "our kid" means my brother or sister; Gen Alpha "it's giving doom" means "it feels like doom"; in Newcastle "divvent" means don't and "canny" means quite or nice. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 053-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 to to PART TO _ 3 mark _ _ 3 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 acl _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Liverpool Liverpool PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 nsubj _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 11 really really ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 14 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:ccomp 18 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 Gen Gen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 24 Alpha Alpha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 flat _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 ccomp _ _ 29 doom doom NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nsubj 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 31 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:conj 35 like like ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 doom doom NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct 38 ; ; PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Newcastle Newcastle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 41 " " PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 42 divvent divvent NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ 44 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 45 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 46 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 51 advmod _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 48 " " PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ _ 49 canny canny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 conj _ _ 50 " " PUNCT '' _ 49 punct _ _ 51 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 parataxis _ _ 52 quite quite ADV RB _ 51 obj _ _ 53 or or CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 54 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 conj _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **mean** | present | proper | | | | | in Liverpool | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in liverpool=Attribute | | 3 | **mean** | present | our kid | my brother or sister | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **give** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Gen | doom | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **mean** | present | Gen *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **feel** *in a quote* | present | kid | | | | | like doom | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like doom=Theme | | 7 | **mean** | present | divvent | | | | | in Newcastle | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in newcastle=Attribute | | 8 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quite=Topic | 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:053-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-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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