--- title: In current slang "mid" means average, not great, and the skull emoji… — Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teac… · tree and pragmatics description: In current slang "mid" means average, not great, and the skull emoji 💀 means "I'm dead", that is, it's so funny or so bad. Who acts: mid, skull emoji, London lad, emoji. 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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 (mid, skull emoji, London lad, emoji), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:016-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher.lesson:9 # text = In current slang "mid" means average, not great, and the skull emoji 💀 means "I'm dead", that is, it's so funny or so bad. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 016-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher.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, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 current current ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 mid mid NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:appos 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 average average ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:xcomp 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 skull skull NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 emoji emoji NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 💀 💀 SYM SYM _ 16 punct _ _ 18 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 ccomp _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nsubj 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 ccomp _ _ 32 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | mid | average | | | | in current slang | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot average=Theme in slang=Attribute | | 2 | **mean** | present | the skull emoji | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a London lad *= lad* | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | emoji | | | | | funny *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | emoji *not said here* | | | | | | 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:language:016-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher.lesson:9`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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