--- title: Slang here: "posh" (UK) means fancy; "like" at the end (Yorkshire) a… — Colours · tree and pragmatics description: Slang here: "posh" (UK) means fancy; "like" at the end (Yorkshire) adds a shrug; "whit" (Scotland) means what; "gonna" means going to; "loses it" means laughs a lot; "eh" (Canada) asks you to agree; "sweet as" (New Zealand) means great; "wee" (Scotland) means small. Who acts: posh, shrug, Scotland, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/9-colours/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/) / [Colours](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/9-colours/) / 17 # Colours, sentence 17 Slang here: "posh" (UK) means fancy; "like" at the end (Yorkshire) adds a shrug; "whit" (Scotland) means what; "gonna" means going to; "loses it" means laughs a lot; "eh" (Canada) asks you to agree; "sweet as" (New Zealand) means great; "wee" (Scotland) means small. **Who acts:** posh, shrug, Scotland, gonna, eh, New Zealand · **What happens:** mean, add, go, lose, laugh, ask · **To what, where:** fancy, end, gonna, lot, you, small · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Colours» 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 (posh, shrug, Scotland, gonna), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:009-colours.lesson:17 # text = Slang here: "posh" (UK) means fancy; "like" at the end (Yorkshire) adds a shrug; "whit" (Scotland) means what; "gonna" means going to; "loses it" means laughs a lot; "eh" (Canada) asks you to agree; "sweet as" (New Zealand) means great; "wee" (Scotland) means small. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 009-colours.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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 dep _ _ 2 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 1 advmod _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 posh posh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 nsubj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 8 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 parataxis _ _ 11 fancy fancy NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 like like INTJ UH _ 22 discourse _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Yorkshire Yorkshire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 22 adds add VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 shrug shrug NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 27 whit whit NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 30 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 32 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 parataxis _ _ 33 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 32 obj _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 36 gonna gonna NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 parataxis _ _ 39 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:ccomp 40 to to ADP IN _ 39 fixed _ _ 41 ; ; PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 42 " " PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=43:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 43 loses lose VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 nsubj _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ 46 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 47 laughs laugh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 ccomp _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl:unmarked _ _ 50 ; ; PUNCT : _ 57 punct _ _ 51 " " PUNCT `` _ 52 punct _ _ 52 eh eh NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ _ 53 " " PUNCT '' _ 52 punct _ _ 54 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 55 punct _ _ 55 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 appos _ _ 56 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 55 punct _ _ 57 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 conj _ _ 58 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 57 obj _ _ 59 to to PART TO _ 60 mark _ _ 60 agree agree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 57 xcomp _ _ 61 ; ; PUNCT : _ 63 punct _ _ 62 " " PUNCT `` _ 63 punct _ _ 63 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 parataxis _ _ 64 as as SCONJ IN _ 70 mark _ _ 65 " " PUNCT `` _ 70 punct _ _ 66 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 68 punct _ _ 67 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 68 flat _ _ 68 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 70 nsubj _ _ 69 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 68 punct _ _ 70 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 63 advcl _ _ 71 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 70 xcomp _ _ 72 ; ; PUNCT : _ 79 punct _ _ 73 " " PUNCT `` _ 74 punct _ _ 74 wee wee NOUN NN Number=Sing 79 nsubj _ _ 75 " " PUNCT '' _ 74 punct _ _ 76 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 77 punct _ _ 77 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 74 appos _ _ 78 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 77 punct _ _ 79 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 conj _ _ 80 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 79 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=79:xcomp 81 . . PUNCT . _ 46 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | posh | fancy | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Topic | | 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | a shrug | | | | at the end | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **mean** | present | Scotland | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 4 | **mean** | present | gonna | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **go** *not said to happen* | gerund | gonna *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **lose** *in a quote* | present | | gonna | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 7 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **laugh** | present | | a lot | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | eh | | you | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 10 | **agree** *speech: agree* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | eh *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 11 | **mean** | present | New Zealand | | | | | great *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 12 | **mean** | present | wee | small | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent small=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:009-colours.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): 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/). - ← previous: [Colours, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/9-colours/16/) - next →: [Days of the week and months, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/9-colours/)