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title: In 2015 the Oxford Dictionaries "Word of the Year" was an emoji, 😂,… — Texting, abbreviations and emoji · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2015 the Oxford Dictionaries "Word of the Year" was an emoji, 😂, the face with tears of joy, because it was the most used that year. Who acts: Oxford Dictionaries, face. A sentence of the lesson «Texting, abbreviations and emoji» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Texting, abbreviations and emoji, sentence 10

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In 2015 the Oxford Dictionaries "Word of the Year" was an emoji, 😂, the face with tears of joy, because it was the most used that year.

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**Who acts:** Oxford Dictionaries, face · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** emoji, 2015

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Texting, abbreviations and emoji» 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: who acts (Oxford Dictionaries, face), 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:10
# text = In 2015 the Oxford Dictionaries "Word of the Year" was an emoji, 😂, the face with tears of joy, because it was the most used that year.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Oxford	Oxford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Dictionaries	dictionary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
7	Word	Word	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	emoji	emoji	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	😂	😂	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	discourse	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:appos
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	30	advmod	_	_
30	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
31	that	that	DET	DT	PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Oxford Dictionaries | a emoji |  | 2015 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | face |  |  |  | year | use *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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: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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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