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title: In British slang, to «fancy» someone means to like them as a boyfrie… — Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying · tree and pragmatics
description: In British slang, to «fancy» someone means to like them as a boyfriend or girlfriend. A sentence of the lesson «Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying, sentence 21

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In British slang, to «fancy» someone means to like them as a boyfriend or girlfriend.

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**What happens:** fancy, mean, like · **To what, where:** someone, British slang, activities · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying» of the everyday 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:098-friendship-being-left-out-and-bullying.lesson:21
# text = In British slang, to «fancy» someone means to like them as a boyfriend or girlfriend.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 098-friendship-being-left-out-and-bullying.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	fancy	fancy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	csubj	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
9	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	boyfriend	boyfriend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	girlfriend	girlfriend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fancy** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  | British slang |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **like** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | activities *= activity* |  |  |  | as a boyfriend or girlfriend | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |

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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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**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.

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