--- title: Surveys reported in the news say some young people read the 👍 emoji… — Texting, abbreviations and emoji · tree and pragmatics description: Surveys reported in the news say some young people read the 👍 emoji as cold or annoyed, while many older people use it just to mean OK. Who acts: Surveys, young people, many 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 (Surveys, young people, many 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:9 # text = Surveys reported in the news say some young people read the 👍 emoji as cold or annoyed, while many older people use it just to mean OK. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Surveys survey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 reported report VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 6 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 7 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 8 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 👍 👍 NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 13 emoji emoji NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 obl _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 annoyed annoyed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 while while SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 amod _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 just just ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 28 OK ok ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **report** | past | Surveys | | | the news | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Surveys *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **read** | infinitive | some young people | the 👍 emoji | | | | as cold | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer emoji=Stimulus as cold=Attribute | | 4 | **use** | present | many older people | news | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **mean** | to-infinitive | many older people *not said here* | OK | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ok=Topic | 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:9`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Texting, abbreviations and emoji, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/8/) - next →: [Texting, abbreviations and emoji, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/)