--- title: Texting is a new kind of writing that behaves a lot like talking: sh… — Texting, abbreviations and emoji · tree and pragmatics description: Texting is a new kind of writing that behaves a lot like talking: short, fast, and full of codes like "brb", "lol" and little pictures called emoji. Who acts: Texting, new kind, lot, little pictures. 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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 (Texting, new kind, lot, little pictures), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:030-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji.lesson:0 # text = Texting is a new kind of writing that behaves a lot like talking: short, fast, and full of codes like "brb", "lol" and little pictures called emoji. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 030-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji.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 ×3 1 Texting texting NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 behaves behave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 like like SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 codes code NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 23 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 brb brb NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 27 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 29 lol lol INTJ UH _ 15 discourse _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 34 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ _ 35 emoji emoji NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 xcomp _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Texting | a new kind and little pictures | | | | of writing | tree rules | | 2 | **behave** | present | a new kind and little pictures | a lot | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **talk** | gerund | a lot *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **call** | participle | little pictures *not said here* | emoji | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:030-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji.lesson:0`. **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 ×3. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Sarcasm and tone of voice, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/16/) - next →: [Texting, abbreviations and emoji, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/)