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title: Slang here: "hiya" (UK) means hi; "wicked" (Boston) means very; "gra… — Hello and goodbye: greetings · tree and pragmatics
description: Slang here: "hiya" (UK) means hi; "wicked" (Boston) means very; "grand" (Ireland) means fine; "gonnae" (Scotland) means going to; "salty" means annoyed; "skibidi talk" is kids' word for nonsense talk. Who acts: hiya, wicked, grand, Scotland. A sentence of the lesson «Hello and goodbye: greetings» of
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# Hello and goodbye: greetings, sentence 18

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Slang here: "hiya" (UK) means hi; "wicked" (Boston) means very; "grand" (Ireland) means fine; "gonnae" (Scotland) means going to; "salty" means annoyed; "skibidi talk" is kids' word for nonsense talk.

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**Who acts:** hiya, wicked, grand, Scotland, salty, skibidi talk · **What happens:** mean, go, be · **To what, where:** fine, word

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hello and goodbye: greetings» 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 (hiya, wicked, grand, Scotland), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:004-hello-and-goodbye-greetings.lesson:18
# text = Slang here: "hiya" (UK) means hi; "wicked" (Boston) means very; "grand" (Ireland) means fine; "gonnae" (Scotland) means going to; "salty" means annoyed; "skibidi talk" is kids' word for nonsense talk.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 004-hello-and-goodbye-greetings.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	hiya	hiya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
8	UK	UK	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	advcl	_	_
11	hi	hi	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Boston	Boston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=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	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	grand	grand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Ireland	Ireland	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	1	parataxis	_	_
29	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:xcomp
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
32	gonnae	gonnae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	29	parataxis	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
37	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	parataxis	_	_
38	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:ccomp
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	fixed	_	_
40	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	_
42	salty	salty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	_
44	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	parataxis	_	_
45	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	xcomp	_	_
46	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
47	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=49:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
48	skibidi	skibidi	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=49:amod
49	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
50	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	49	punct	_	_
51	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
52	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nmod:poss	_	_
53	'	's	PART	POS	_	52	case	_	_
54	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
55	for	for	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	nonsense	nonsense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | hiya |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | wicked |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | present | grand | fine |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Topic |
| 4 | **mean** | present | Scotland |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **go** *not said to happen* | gerund | Scotland *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **mean** | present | salty |  |  |  |  | annoyed *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** | present | skibidi talk | kids's word |  |  |  | for nonsense talk | tree rules |

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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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**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:004-hello-and-goodbye-greetings.lesson:18`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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/).

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