--- title: Slang is the new, playful, in-group language of a time and a crowd;… — Slang and how it changes with every generation · tree and pragmatics description: Slang is the new, playful, in-group language of a time and a crowd; every generation makes its own, partly so it can sound different from its parents. Who acts: Slang, generation. 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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 (Slang, generation), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:017-slang-and-how-it-changes-with-every-generation.lesson:0 # text = Slang is the new, playful, in-group language of a time and a crowd; every generation makes its own, partly so it can sound different from its parents. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 017-slang-and-how-it-changes-with-every-generation.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 4 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 playful playful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 20 generation generation NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:xcomp 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 partly partly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 26 so so SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 30 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Slang | the new playful group language | | | time | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | every generation | generation's own | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset own=Product | | 3 | **sound** | can | Slang | | | | | different, partly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:017-slang-and-how-it-changes-with-every-generation.lesson:0`. **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 ×1, 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. 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