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title: Slang in this lesson: «fixin' to» means «about to» in the US South;… — Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e · tree and pragmatics
description: Slang in this lesson: «fixin' to» means «about to» in the US South; «boss» means great in Manchester and Liverpool; «me mam» is Northern English for «my mum». Who acts: boss, me. A sentence of the lesson «Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e» of the english course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e, sentence 29

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Slang in this lesson: «fixin' to» means «about to» in the US South; «boss» means great in Manchester and Liverpool; «me mam» is Northern English for «my mum».

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**Who acts:** boss, me · **What happens:** fixin, means, », mean, be · **To what, where:** US South, Northern English

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e» 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 (boss, me), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:007-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e.lesson:29
# text = Slang in this lesson: «fixin' to» means «about to» in the US South; «boss» means great in Manchester and Liverpool; «me mam» is Northern English for «my mum».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 007-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e.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 ×3, 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	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	fixin	fixin	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	nsubj	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
11	means	means	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	»	»	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
24	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
33	mam	mam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	_
34	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	Northern	Northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	_
40	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fixin** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **means** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **»** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the US South |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **mean** | present | boss |  |  |  |  | in Manchester and Liverpool; great *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in manchester=Attribute |
| 5 | **is a** | present | me | Northern English |  |  |  | for my mum | tree rules |

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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:007-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e.lesson:29`.

**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 ×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.

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

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