--- title: Local slang can sound rude to a newcomer when it is meant friendly;… — The new kid and the first day · tree and pragmatics description: Local slang can sound rude to a newcomer when it is meant friendly; ask or laugh along before deciding someone is an enemy. Who acts: Local slang, someone. 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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 (Local slang, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day.lesson:31 # text = Local slang can sound rude to a newcomer when it is meant friendly; ask or laugh along before deciding someone is an enemy. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 newcomer newcomer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 9 when when SCONJ WRB _ 12 mark _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 meant mean VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 13 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 18 along along ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 before before SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 deciding decide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 21 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 ccomp _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sound** | can | Local slang | | | | | to a newcomer; rude *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to newcomer=Experiencer | | 2 | **mean** | present · passive | | slang | | | | friendly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **laugh** | infinitive | | | | | | along *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **decide** | gerund | | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | someone | a enemy | | | | | 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:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day.lesson:31`. **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, R7-rel-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: [The new kid and the first day, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day/30/) - next →: [The new kid and the first day, 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day/32/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day/)