--- title: Picture one pizza and three generations: Grandad says "That's groovy… — Slang and how it changes with every generation · tree and pragmatics description: Picture one pizza and three generations: Grandad says "That's groovy!" (1960s), Mum says "That's cool!" (an old jazz word from the 1930s and 1940s that never died), and Mia says "That's bussin'!" (today, meaning really tasty). Who acts: you, Grandad, That, Mum. 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(today, meaning really tasty). **Who acts:** you, Grandad, That, Mum, old jazz word, Mia · **What happens:** picture, say, be, not die, mean · **To what, where:** one pizza · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Slang and how it changes with every generation» of the language 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 (you, Grandad, That, Mum), 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:1 # text = Picture one pizza and three generations: Grandad says "That's groovy!" (1960s), Mum says "That's cool!" (an old jazz word from the 1930s and 1940s that never died), and Mia says "That's bussin'!" (today, meaning really tasty). # 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 pizza pizza NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 generations generation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 11 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 nsubj _ _ 12 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 groovy groovy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ _ 14 ! ! PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 17 1960s 1960s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 23 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 nsubj _ _ 24 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 ccomp _ _ 26 ! ! PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 jazz jazz NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 1930s 1930 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 32 nmod _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 1940s 1940 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 35 conj _ _ 38 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:obj 39 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:acl:relcl 41 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 Mia Mia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 46 " " PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ _ 47 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 49 nsubj _ _ 48 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 cop _ _ 49 bussin bussin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 ccomp _ _ 50 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 49 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=49:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 51 ! ! PUNCT . _ 49 punct _ _ 52 " " PUNCT '' _ 49 punct _ _ 53 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 54 punct _ _ 54 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl:unmarked _ _ 55 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 56 meaning mean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ _ 57 really really ADV RB _ 58 advmod _ _ 58 tasty tasty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 xcomp _ _ 59 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 56 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=58:punct 60 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | one pizza and three generations | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent pizza=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | present | Grandad | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | That | | | | | 1960s *obl*; groovy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: express* | present | Mum | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | That | | | | | cool *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **die** | past | a old jazz word from the 1930s and 1940s | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 7 | **say** *speech: express* | present | Mia | | | | today | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present | That | | | | | bussin *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **mean** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | tasty *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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:1`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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