--- title: In maths and science "random" means by chance; in slang since the 19… — Words that changed their meaning · tree and pragmatics description: In maths and science "random" means by chance; in slang since the 1980s it also means strange or out of place. Who acts: random. A sentence of the lesson «Words that changed their meaning» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/38-words-that-changed-their-meaning/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Words that changed their meaning](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/38-words-that-changed-their-meaning/) / 15 # Words that changed their meaning, sentence 15 In maths and science "random" means by chance; in slang since the 1980s it also means strange or out of place. **Who acts:** random · **What happens:** mean This is a sentence of the lesson «Words that changed their meaning» 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 (random), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:038-words-that-changed-their-meaning.lesson:15 # text = In maths and science "random" means by chance; in slang since the 1980s it also means strange or out of place. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 038-words-that-changed-their-meaning.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 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 maths math NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 science science NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 random random NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 14 since since ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 1980s 1980s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 also also ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 20 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 out out ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | random | | | | | by chance; in maths and science | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in math=Attribute | | 2 | **mean** | present | random | | | | since the 1980s | in slang; strange *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in slang=Attribute | 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:038-words-that-changed-their-meaning.lesson:15`. **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. **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: [Words that changed their meaning, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/38-words-that-changed-their-meaning/14/) - next →: [Words that changed their meaning, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/38-words-that-changed-their-meaning/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/38-words-that-changed-their-meaning/)