--- title: In UK slang mint means excellent; in London bare means very or lots… — Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and ac… · tree and pragmatics description: In UK slang mint means excellent; in London bare means very or lots of; in the Black Country and Birmingham bostin' means brilliant. Who acts: mint, bare. 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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 (mint, bare), 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:16 # text = In UK slang mint means excellent; in London bare means very or lots of; in the Black Country and Birmingham bostin' means brilliant. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 mint mint NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 excellent excellent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 10 bare bare NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 12 very very ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 14 nmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 Black Black PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Country Country PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 Birmingham Birmingham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 bostin bostin NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 24 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 26 brilliant brilliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | mint | | | | | in UK slang; excellent *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in slang=Attribute | | 2 | **mean** | present | bare | lots | | | | in London | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme in london=Attribute | | 3 | **mean** | present | mint *not said here* | | | | | in the Black Country and Birmingham bostin; brilliant *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in country=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:004-adjectives-and-adverbs.lesson:16`. **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…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/15/) - next →: [Adjectives and adverbs: describing thi…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/)