--- title: "Spill the tea" is slang from African American speech, now used by m… — Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up · tree and pragmatics description: "Spill the tea" is slang from African American speech, now used by many young people, meaning "share the gossip"; no real tea is spilt. A sentence of the lesson «Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up/) / 10 # Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up, sentence 10 "Spill the tea" is slang from African American speech, now used by many young people, meaning "share the gossip"; no real tea is spilt. **What happens:** spill, be, use, mean, share, spilt · **To what, where:** tea, slang, African American speech, gossip, real tea · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:026-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up.lesson:10 # text = "Spill the tea" is slang from African American speech, now used by many young people, meaning "share the gossip"; no real tea is spilt. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 026-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Spill spill VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 now now ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 advcl _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl:agent _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 meaning mean VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 share share VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 gossip gossip NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 29 det _ _ 28 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 spilt spilt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spill** *in a quote* | infinitive | | the tea | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tea=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | | slang | | African American speech | | | tree rules | | 3 | **use** | participle | | | | | now | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | gerund | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **share** *not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive | | the gossip | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **spilt** | present · passive | | no real tea | | | | | tree rules | 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:026-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up.lesson:10`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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