--- title: Many young people use 💀 to mean "I'm dying of laughter"; older peopl… — Texting, abbreviations and emoji · tree and pragmatics description: Many young people use 💀 to mean "I'm dying of laughter"; older people may read it as being about death. Who acts: Many young people, 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 (Many young people, 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:6 # text = Many young people use 💀 to mean "I'm dying of laughter"; older people may read it as being about death. # 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 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 💀 💀 SYM SYM _ 4 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 dying die VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 ccomp _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 laughter laughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 amod _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 22 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 cop _ _ 23 about about ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obl 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Many young people | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 💀=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | to-infinitive | Many young people *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **die** *in a quote* | present · progressive | some older people *= people* | | | | | of laughter | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of laughter=Causer | | 4 | **read** | may | older people | laughter | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 5 | **is** | gerund | older people *not said here* | | | | | about death | tree rules | 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:6`. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/5/) - next →: [Texting, abbreviations and emoji, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/)