--- title: Slang moves fast: when parents start saying "sick" or "lit", young p… — Slang and how it changes with every generation · tree and pragmatics description: Slang moves fast: when parents start saying "sick" or "lit", young people often drop it and invent something new; but some slang settles down and ends up in dictionaries, like "rizz" (charm), Oxford's Word of the Year for 2023. Who acts: Slang, parents, young people. 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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, parents, young people), 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:2 # text = Slang moves fast: when parents start saying "sick" or "lit", young people often drop it and invent something new; but some slang settles down and ends up in dictionaries, like "rizz" (charm), Oxford's Word of the Year for 2023. # 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 fast fast ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 6 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl 8 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 xcomp _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 obj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 lit lit NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 19 often often ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 drop drop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 invent invent VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 24 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 23 obj _ _ 25 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 29 det _ _ 29 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 settles settle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 31 down down ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 ends end VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 34 up up ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 dictionaries dictionary NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 like like ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ _ 40 rizz rizz NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 42 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 43 charm charm NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 44 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 46 Oxford Oxford PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 nmod:poss _ _ 47 's 's PART POS _ 46 case _ _ 48 Word Word PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 Year Year PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 nmod _ _ 52 for for ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 2023 2023 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 48 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl 54 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | present | Slang | Oxford's Word of the Year | | | | for 2023; fast *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme word=Result | | 2 | **start** | present | parents | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | parents *not said here* | sick or lit | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sick=Topic | | 4 | **drop** | present | young people | Slang | | | | often *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **invent** | present | young people *not said here* | something | | | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Result | | 6 | **settle down** | present | some slang | | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **end up** | present | some slang *not said here* | | | | | in dictionaries like rizz *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in dictionary=Result | 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. 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