--- title: Slang in this lesson: "mid" means not very good, "sweet as" (New Zea… — Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be… · tree and pragmatics description: Slang in this lesson: "mid" means not very good, "sweet as" (New Zealand) means great, "yer man" (Ireland) means that man, "grand" (Ireland) means fine, "no cap" means honestly, "a tad" means a little, and "back in my day" is how older people start a story about the past. 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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 (mid, New Zealand, man, grand), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:042-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true.lesson:16 # text = Slang in this lesson: "mid" means not very good, "sweet as" (New Zealand) means great, "yer man" (Ireland) means that man, "grand" (Ireland) means fine, "no cap" means honestly, "a tad" means a little, and "back in my day" is how older people start a story about the past. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 042-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4 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 obl _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 mid mid X AFX _ 9 nsubj _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:ccomp 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 11 very very ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 15 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 19 New New PROPN NNP _ 20 flat _ _ 20 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 22 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 23 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 26 yer yer DET DT PronType=Dem 27 det _ _ 27 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 30 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 32 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 33 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 34 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:compound 35 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 37 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=42:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 39 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 40 punct _ _ 40 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 appos _ _ 41 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 40 punct _ _ 42 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 advcl _ _ 43 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 xcomp _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 45 " " PUNCT `` _ 47 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 46 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 47 det _ _ 47 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 48 " " PUNCT '' _ 47 punct _ _ 49 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 56 advcl _ _ 50 honestly honestly ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 51 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 52 " " PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=49:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 53 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 tad tad NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nsubj _ _ 55 " " PUNCT '' _ 54 punct _ _ 56 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 parataxis _ _ 57 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 58 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 obj _ _ 59 , , PUNCT , _ 71 punct _ _ 60 and and CCONJ CC _ 71 cc _ _ 61 " " PUNCT `` _ 62 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=65:punct 62 back back ADV RB _ 65 advmod _ _ 63 in in ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 64 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 65 nmod:poss _ _ 65 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 71 nsubj _ _ 66 " " PUNCT '' _ 65 punct _ _ 67 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 71 cop _ _ 68 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 71 advmod _ _ 69 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 70 amod _ _ 70 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 71 nsubj _ _ 71 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 56 conj _ _ 72 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 73 det _ _ 73 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 71 obj _ _ 74 about about ADP IN _ 76 case _ _ 75 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 76 det _ _ 76 past past NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 nmod _ _ 77 . . 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 | mid | | | | | good *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | New Zealand | | | | | great *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | yer man | that man | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | | 4 | **mean** | present | grand | | | | | fine *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mean** | present | no cap | | | | | honestly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **mean** | present | a tad | a little | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Topic | | 7 | **is** | present | my day | | | | | start *property* | 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:money:042-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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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