--- title: Wicked means very in New England in the US (wicked good), brilliant… — Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and ac… · tree and pragmatics description: Wicked means very in New England in the US (wicked good), brilliant in British slang, and evil in its old standard meaning. Who acts: Wicked, slang. 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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 (Wicked, slang), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:004-adjectives-and-adverbs.lesson:15 # text = Wicked means very in New England in the US (wicked good), brilliant in British slang, and evil in its old standard meaning. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 004-adjectives-and-adverbs.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 very very ADV RB _ 2 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 New New ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 11 wicked wick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ _ 12 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 brilliant brilliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 24 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 standard standard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | Wicked | | | | | in New England in the US | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot very=Theme in england=Attribute | | 2 | **wick** | participle | | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | | slang | | | | | | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:004-adjectives-and-adverbs.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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: [Adjectives and adverbs: describing thi…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/14/) - next →: [Adjectives and adverbs: describing thi…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/)