--- title: LOL means "laughing out loud"; some older people once thought it mea… — Texting, abbreviations and emoji · tree and pragmatics description: LOL means "laughing out loud"; some older people once thought it meant "lots of love", and today it is often used just to sound friendly. Who acts: LOL, older people. 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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 (LOL, older people), 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:4 # text = LOL means "laughing out loud"; some older people once thought it meant "lots of love", and today it is often used just to sound friendly. # 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 ×1 1 LOL lol NOUN NN _ 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 ccomp _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 loud loud ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 11 det _ _ 10 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 amod _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 13 advmod _ _ 13 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 26 often often ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 28 just just ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 31 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | LOL | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **laugh out** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | loud *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | some older people | | | | | once *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **mean** | past | LOL | lots of love | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic | | 5 | **use** | present · passive | | LOL | | | today | often *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **sound** | to-infinitive | | | | | | friendly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:4`. **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. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/3/) - next →: [Texting, abbreviations and emoji, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/)