--- title: Skibidi comes from a 2023 YouTube animated series; kids use it as a… — Slang and how it changes with every generation · tree and pragmatics description: Skibidi comes from a 2023 YouTube animated series; kids use it as a fun word that can mean cool, bad or nothing, and it was added to the Cambridge Dictionary in 2025. Who acts: Skibidi, kids, fun word. 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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 (Skibidi, kids, fun word), 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:8 # text = Skibidi comes from a 2023 YouTube animated series; kids use it as a fun word that can mean cool, bad or nothing, and it was added to the Cambridge Dictionary in 2025. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Skibidi Skibidi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 2023 2023 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nmod:unmarked _ _ 6 YouTube YouTube PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod:unmarked 7 animated animated ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 series series NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 fun fun ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 20 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 added add VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 Cambridge cambridge PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 33 Dictionary dictionary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 2025 2025 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:nmod 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Skibidi | | | a YouTube animated series 2023 | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from series=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **use** | present | kids | Slang | | | | as a fun word | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Duration as word=Attribute | | 3 | **mean** | can | a fun word | cool | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cool=Topic | | 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | past · passive | | Slang | | 2025 | | to the Cambridge Dictionary | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to dictionary=Co-Patient | 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:8`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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