--- title: In London youth slang "peng" means great or good-looking and "bare"… — Slang and how it changes with every generation · tree and pragmatics description: In London youth slang "peng" means great or good-looking and "bare" means very or lots; in parts of the North "mint" means great and "aye" means yes. Who acts: London youth slang, bare, North mint, aye. 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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 (London youth slang, bare, North mint, aye), 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:15 # text = In London youth slang "peng" means great or good-looking and "bare" means very or lots; in parts of the North "mint" means great and "aye" means yes. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 peng peng NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 11 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 flat _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 16 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 nsubj _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 19 very very ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 29 mint mint NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 32 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=31:cc 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 35 aye aye NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 37 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 38 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 37 discourse _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | London youth slang | | | | | great *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **mean** | present | bare | lots | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic | | 4 | **mean** | present | the North mint | | | | | in parts; great *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in part=Attribute | | 5 | **mean** | present | aye | | | | | | 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:15`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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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