--- title: "Dead" as a booster meaning very ("dead good") is common in Liverpoo… — Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds · tree and pragmatics description: "Dead" as a booster meaning very ("dead good") is common in Liverpool and much of northern England; in Leicester and the East Midlands "me duck" is a friendly word, like love or dear. Who acts: Dead, people, duck. 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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 (Dead, people, duck), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:037-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds.lesson:14 # text = "Dead" as a booster meaning very ("dead good") is common in Liverpool and much of northern England; in Leicester and the East Midlands "me duck" is a friendly word, like love or dear. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 037-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds.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 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 booster booster NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 meaning mean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 8 very very ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 11 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 good good NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Liverpool Liverpool PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Leicester Leicester PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 Midlands Midlands PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 32 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 duck duck NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 like like ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 appos _ _ 42 or or CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 conj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | gerund | | dead good | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | Dead as a booster | | | Liverpool | | common *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **duck** *in a quote* | | people | | | Leicester and the East Midlands | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | duck | a friendly word | | | | | 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:037-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds.lesson:14`. **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. 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