--- title: Slang in this lesson: "skint" means having no money, "canny" (North… — Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Slang in this lesson: "skint" means having no money, "canny" (North East England) means good or clever, "lush" (Wales) means great, "servo" (Australia) is a petrol station, "bussin'" means really good, "no cap" means honestly, and "sound" (Liverpool, Manchester) means fine or right. 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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 (skint, canny, lush, bussin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:041-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till.lesson:16 # text = Slang in this lesson: "skint" means having no money, "canny" (North East England) means good or clever, "lush" (Wales) means great, "servo" (Australia) is a petrol station, "bussin'" means really good, "no cap" means honestly, and "sound" (Liverpool, Manchester) means fine or right. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 041-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 lesson lesson NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 skint skint NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 10 having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 ccomp _ _ 11 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 12 det _ _ 12 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 canny canny NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:parataxis|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 18 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:amod 19 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nsubj 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 22 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 23 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 lush lush NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:parataxis 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 31 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 33 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 34 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 37 servo servo NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 39 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 40 punct _ _ 40 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 appos _ _ 41 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 40 punct _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 petrol petrol NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 station station NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 parataxis _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 47 " " PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=45:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 48 bussin bussin NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 49 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ _ 50 " " PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ _ 51 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 parataxis _ _ 52 really really ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 53 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 xcomp _ _ 54 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 55 " " PUNCT `` _ 57 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=57:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 56 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 57 det _ _ 57 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 nsubj _ _ 58 " " PUNCT '' _ 57 punct _ _ 59 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 parataxis _ _ 60 honestly honestly ADV RB _ 59 advmod _ _ 61 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 64 cc _ _ 63 " " PUNCT `` _ 64 punct _ _ 64 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 parataxis _ _ 65 " " PUNCT '' _ 64 punct _ _ 66 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 67 punct _ _ 67 Liverpool Liverpool PROPN NNP Number=Sing 71 nsubj _ _ 68 , , PUNCT , _ 69 punct _ _ 69 Manchester Manchester PROPN NNP Number=Sing 67 conj _ _ 70 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 67 punct _ _ 71 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 59 conj _ _ 72 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 71 xcomp _ _ 73 or or CCONJ CC _ 74 cc _ _ 74 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 72 conj _ _ 75 . . PUNCT . _ 1 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 | skint | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** | gerund | | no money | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | | 3 | **mean** | present | canny | | | | | good *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | present | lush | servo | | | | great *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servo=Topic | | 5 | **is a** | present | | a petrol station | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **mean** | present | bussin | | | | | good *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **mean** | present | no cap | | | | | honestly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **mean** | present | Liverpool and Manchester | | | | | fine *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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:money:041-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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