--- title: Slang in this lesson: «arvo» is Australian for afternoon; «no cap» m… — Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones · tree and pragmatics description: Slang in this lesson: «arvo» is Australian for afternoon; «no cap» means «no lie, for real»; «wee» is Scottish for small; «mate» means friend. Who acts: arvo, cap, wee, mate. 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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 (arvo, cap, wee, mate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:006-spelling-plurals.lesson:28 # text = Slang in this lesson: «arvo» is Australian for afternoon; «no cap» means «no lie, for real»; «wee» is Scottish for small; «mate» means friend. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 006-spelling-plurals.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 lesson lesson NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 arvo arvo NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 Australian Australian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 afternoon afternoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 15 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 16 det _ _ 16 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 20 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 21 det _ _ 21 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 wee wee NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 Scottish Scottish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 obl _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 « « PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 36 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 37 » » PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 38 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 39 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 40 . . 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 | **is** | present | arvo | | | | afternoon | australian *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | no cap | no lie | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Topic | | 3 | **is** | present | wee | | | | | for small; scottish *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | mate | friend | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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:006-spelling-plurals.lesson:28`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves…, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/6-spelling-plurals/27/) - next →: [Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and drop…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/6-spelling-plurals/)