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title: "Sick" meaning great became common in the 1980s and 1990s; "cringe"… — Slang and how it changes with every generation · tree and pragmatics
description: "Sick" meaning great became common in the 1980s and 1990s; "cringe" means embarrassing. Who acts: cringe. A sentence of the lesson «Slang and how it changes with every generation» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Slang and how it changes with every generation, sentence 11

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"Sick" meaning great became common in the 1980s and 1990s; "cringe" means embarrassing.

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**Who acts:** cringe · **What happens:** mean, become

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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 (cringe), 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:11
# text = "Sick" meaning great became common in the 1980s and 1990s; "cringe" means embarrassing.
# 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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	1980s	1980s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	1990s	1990s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	10	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	cringe	cringe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	embarrassing	embarrassing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | great *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **become** | past |  |  |  |  |  | common *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **mean** | present | cringe |  |  |  |  | embarrassing *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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:11`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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