--- title: In current slang, "ate" or "ate and left no crumbs" means did someth… — Verbs: doing words and being words · tree and pragmatics description: In current slang, "ate" or "ate and left no crumbs" means did something brilliantly; the old meaning of eat still exists too. Who acts: ate, old meaning. 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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 (ate, old meaning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:003-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words.lesson:15 # text = In current slang, "ate" or "ate and left no crumbs" means did something brilliantly; the old meaning of eat still exists too. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 003-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 current current ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 ate ate NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 ate ate NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 13 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 14 det _ _ 14 crumbs crumb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 18 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 17 obj _ _ 19 brilliantly brilliantly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 eat eat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nmod|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 26 still still ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 exists exist VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 28 too too ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** *in a quote* | past | ate or ate *not said here* | no crumbs | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | ate or ate | | | current slang | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **do** | past | | something | | | | brilliantly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | | 4 | **exist** | present | the old meaning of eat | | | | still | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **mean** | | | eat | | | | | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=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:003-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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