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title: Slang here: "canny" (Newcastle) means very or nice; "no cap" means h… — Numbers 21 to 69 · tree and pragmatics
description: Slang here: "canny" (Newcastle) means very or nice; "no cap" means honestly; "our kid" (Manchester) means my brother or sister; "bare" (London) means lots of; "boss" (Liverpool) means great; "heaps" (Australia) means very; "y'all" (Texas) means you all. Who acts: canny, cap, kid, bare. A sentence of
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# Numbers 21 to 69, sentence 16

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Slang here: "canny" (Newcastle) means very or nice; "no cap" means honestly; "our kid" (Manchester) means my brother or sister; "bare" (London) means lots of; "boss" (Liverpool) means great; "heaps" (Australia) means very; "y'all" (Texas) means you all.

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**Who acts:** canny, cap, kid, bare, boss, heaps · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** brother, lots, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Numbers 21 to 69» 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 (canny, cap, kid, bare), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:007-numbers-21-to-69.lesson:16
# text = Slang here: "canny" (Newcastle) means very or nice; "no cap" means honestly; "our kid" (Manchester) means my brother or sister; "bare" (London) means lots of; "boss" (Liverpool) means great; "heaps" (Australia) means very; "y'all" (Texas) means you all.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 007-numbers-21-to-69.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4
1	Slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	dislocated	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	canny	canny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Newcastle	Newcastle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
23	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
29	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
36	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	nsubj	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
38	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	39	punct	_	_
39	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
40	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	39	punct	_	_
41	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
42	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
44	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
45	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	_
46	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
47	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	46	punct	_	_
48	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	49	punct	_	_
49	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	_
50	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	49	punct	_	_
51	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
52	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	xcomp	_	_
53	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
54	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	55	punct	_	_
55	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	nsubj	_	_
56	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	55	punct	_	_
57	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	58	punct	_	_
58	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	appos	_	_
59	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	58	punct	_	_
60	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	parataxis	_	_
61	very	very	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
62	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
63	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	64	punct	_	_
64	y'all	y'all	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	nsubj	_	_
65	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	64	punct	_	_
66	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	67	punct	_	_
67	Texas	Texas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	appos	_	_
68	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	67	punct	_	_
69	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	60	conj	_	_
70	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	69	obj	_	_
71	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	70	dep	_	_
72	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | canny |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | no cap |  |  |  |  | honestly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | present | our kid | my brother or sister |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic |
| 4 | **mean** | present | bare | lots |  |  |  | Slang *dislocated* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic |
| 5 | **mean** | present | boss |  |  |  |  | great *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **mean** | present | heaps |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **mean** | present | y'all | you |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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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