--- title: Slang here: "chucking it down" (UK) means raining hard; "dreich" (Sc… — Weather and seasons · tree and pragmatics description: Slang here: "chucking it down" (UK) means raining hard; "dreich" (Scotland) means grey, damp and gloomy; "mental" (Scotland) means crazy; "wicked" (Boston) means very; "mate" means friend. Who acts: UK, dreich, mental, Boston. A sentence of the lesson «Weather and seasons» of the french course of Mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/) / [Weather and seasons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/) / 17 # Weather and seasons, sentence 17 Slang here: "chucking it down" (UK) means raining hard; "dreich" (Scotland) means grey, damp and gloomy; "mental" (Scotland) means crazy; "wicked" (Boston) means very; "mate" means friend. **Who acts:** UK, dreich, mental, Boston, mate · **What happens:** chuck down, mean, rain · **To what, where:** weather, friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather and seasons» of the french 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 (UK, dreich, mental, Boston), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:013-weather-and-seasons.lesson:17 # text = Slang here: "chucking it down" (UK) means raining hard; "dreich" (Scotland) means grey, damp and gloomy; "mental" (Scotland) means crazy; "wicked" (Boston) means very; "mate" means friend. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 013-weather-and-seasons.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 ×2 1 Slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 dislocated _ _ 2 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 1 advmod _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 chucking chuck VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 down down ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 10 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 12 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 conj _ _ 13 raining rain VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:ccomp 14 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 dreich dreich NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 22 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 23 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 damp damp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 gloomy gloomy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 30 mental mental ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:conj 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 33 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 35 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 36 crazy crazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ _ 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 " " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 39 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 41 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 42 punct _ _ 42 Boston Boston PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 43 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 42 punct _ _ 44 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 45 very very ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 46 ; ; PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 47 " " PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ _ 48 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ _ 50 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=44:conj 51 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obj _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 44 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chuck down** *in a quote* | gerund | UK *not said here* | weather | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | UK | | | | | Slang *dislocated* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **rain** *not said to happen* | gerund | UK *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | | 4 | **mean** | present | dreich | | | | | grey *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mean** | present | mental | | | | | crazy *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **mean** | present | Boston | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **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:french:013-weather-and-seasons.lesson:17`. **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 ×2. **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: [Weather and seasons, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/16/) - next →: [My family, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/14-my-family/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/)