--- title: «Mid» is Gen Z slang for boring or average, «lowkey» means a bit or… — How best friends start · tree and pragmatics description: «Mid» is Gen Z slang for boring or average, «lowkey» means a bit or quietly, «ngl» means «not gonna lie», and «y'all» is Southern US for «you all». Who acts: Mid, lowkey, ngl, y'all. 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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 (Mid, lowkey, ngl, y'all), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start.lesson:36 # text = «Mid» is Gen Z slang for boring or average, «lowkey» means a bit or quietly, «ngl» means «not gonna lie», and «y'all» is Southern US for «you all». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 461-how-best-friends-start.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Mid mid NOUN NN _ 7 nsubj _ _ 3 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 Gen gen NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 Z z NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 boring boring ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 nmod _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 average average ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 lowkey lowkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 18 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 ngl ngl NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 25 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 26 « « PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advmod 28 gonna gonna X FW Foreign=Yes 29 dep _ _ 29 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 33 « « PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 34 y'all y'all PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 37 Southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 « « PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:obl 42 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 41 det _ _ 43 » » PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct 44 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Mid | Gen Z slang | | | | for boring | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | lowkey | a bit | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | ngl | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **lie** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | y'all | Southern US | | | | for you | 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:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start.lesson:36`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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: [How best friends start, 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/35/) - next →: [Sleepovers and inside jokes, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/)