--- title: Slang here: "boss" (Liverpool) means great; "wee" (Scotland) means s… — Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends · tree and pragmatics description: Slang here: "boss" (Liverpool) means great; "wee" (Scotland) means small; "heaps" (Australia) means very; "lush" (Wales) means lovely; "peng" (London) means great-looking; "them accents is" is broken grammar for "those accents are". Who acts: boss, wee, heaps, lush. 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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 (boss, wee, heaps, lush), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:003-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends.lesson:19 # text = Slang here: "boss" (Liverpool) means great; "wee" (Scotland) means small; "heaps" (Australia) means very; "lush" (Wales) means lovely; "peng" (London) means great-looking; "them accents is" is broken grammar for "those accents are". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 003-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 1 advmod _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Liverpool Liverpool PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 11 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:xcomp 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 wee wee NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obj 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 17 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 19 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 20 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 heaps heap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 28 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 29 very very ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 32 lush lush NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 35 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 37 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 38 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 xcomp _ _ 39 ; ; PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 " " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ _ 41 peng peng NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 43 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 44 punct _ _ 44 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 appos _ _ 45 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 44 punct _ _ 46 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 47 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 48 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 47 punct _ _ 49 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 46 ccomp _ _ 50 ; ; PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 51 " " PUNCT '' _ 53 punct _ _ 52 them they DET DT PronType=Dem 53 det _ _ 53 accents accent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=57:nsubj:pass 54 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 55 " " PUNCT '' _ 54 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=57:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 56 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 aux:pass _ _ 57 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 parataxis _ _ 58 grammar grammar NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obj _ _ 59 for for ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 60 " " PUNCT `` _ 62 punct _ _ 61 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 62 det _ _ 62 accents accent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 obl _ _ 63 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 62 cop _ _ 64 " " PUNCT '' _ 63 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=62:punct 65 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | boss | great | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent great=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | present | wee | | | | | small *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | heaps | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | present | lush | | | | | lovely *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mean** | present | peng | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **break** | present · passive | | grammar | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: grammar=Patient | | 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | for that accents | 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:french:003-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends.lesson:19`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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: [Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/17/) - next →: [Hello and goodbye: greetings, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/4-hello-and-goodbye-greetings/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/3-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends/)