--- title: "Don't have a cow" is American slang for "don't get so upset"; it be… — Slang and how it changes with every generation · tree and pragmatics description: "Don't have a cow" is American slang for "don't get so upset"; it became famous through Bart Simpson in the 1990s. Who acts: Slang. 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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), 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:9 # text = "Don't have a cow" is American slang for "don't get so upset"; it became famous through Bart Simpson in the 1990s. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 Do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 have have VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 csubj _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 for for SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 13 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 obl _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 upset upset ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 22 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 23 through through ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Bart Bart PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 Simpson Simpson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 flat _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 1990s 1990s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 21 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | present · do-support | | a cow | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | | American slang | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | upset *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **become** | past | Slang | | | Bart | | in the 1990s *result*; famous *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1990s=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:language:017-slang-and-how-it-changes-with-every-generation.lesson:9`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1. **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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