--- title: Ava sends her gran a 💀 because a video is hilarious ("I'm dead, that… — Texting, abbreviations and emoji · tree and pragmatics description: Ava sends her gran a 💀 because a video is hilarious ("I'm dead, that's so funny"), and Gran rings in a panic thinking someone has died; the same picture meant two things to two generations. Who acts: Ava, video, Gran, that. 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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 (Ava, video, Gran, that), 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:1 # text = Ava sends her gran a 💀 because a video is hilarious ("I'm dead, that's so funny"), and Gran rings in a panic thinking someone has died; the same picture meant two things to two generations. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Ava Ava PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sends send VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 gran gran NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 iobj _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 💀 💀 NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 video video NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 hilarious hilarious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 advcl _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 nsubj _ _ 19 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 Gran Gran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 rings ring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 panic panic NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 thinking think VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 advcl _ _ 32 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 34 nsubj _ _ 33 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 ccomp _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 40 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 nummod _ _ 44 generations generation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | present | Ava | a 💀 | Ava's gran | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent gran=Destination 💀=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | a video | | | | | hilarious *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Gran | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that | | | | | funny *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **ring** | present | Gran | | | a panic | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in panic=Location | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Gran *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **die** | present · perfect | someone | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 8 | **mean** | past | the same picture | two things | | | to two generations | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme to generation=Attribute | 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:1`. **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): R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Texting, abbreviations and emoji, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/0/) - next →: [Texting, abbreviations and emoji, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/)