--- title: Kids and grown-ups talk about it in their own slang: "y'all" means y… — US elections and the president, as reported · tree and pragmatics description: Kids and grown-ups talk about it in their own slang: "y'all" means you all, "fixin' to" means about to (in the South), "delulu" means believing something that is not real, "ate" means did really well, and "rizz" means charm. Who acts: Kids, y'all, ate, rizz. 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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 (Kids, y'all, ate, rizz), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:016-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported.lesson:8 # text = Kids and grown-ups talk about it in their own slang: "y'all" means you all, "fixin' to" means about to (in the South), "delulu" means believing something that is not real, "ate" means did really well, and "rizz" means charm. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 016-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported.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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 3 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 5 ups ups NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 6 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 y'all y'all NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 22 fixin fixin NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 27 about about ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 27 fixed _ _ 29 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 36 delulu delulu X FW Foreign=Yes 38 discourse _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 39 believing believe VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 xcomp _ _ 40 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 39 obj _ _ 41 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 44 nsubj _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 43 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 44 advmod _ _ 44 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 acl:relcl _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 46 " " PUNCT `` _ 47 punct _ _ 47 ate ate 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 26 conj _ _ 50 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 ccomp _ _ 51 really really ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 52 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 50 advmod _ _ 53 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 55 " " PUNCT `` _ 56 punct _ _ 56 rizz rizz NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 nsubj _ _ 57 " " PUNCT '' _ 56 punct _ _ 58 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl:relcl _ _ 59 charm charm NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obj _ _ 60 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **talk** | present | Kids and grown ups | | | Kids's own slang | | about clip | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | | 3 | **mean** | present | y'all | you | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | | 4 | **mean** | present | y'all *not said here* | | | | | about the South | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **believe** *not said to happen* | gerund | | something | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | | 7 | **not** **is** | present | | | | | | real *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **mean** | present | ate | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **do** | past | | | | | | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **mean** | present | rizz | charm | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=Topic | | 11 | **slang** | | Kids *= kid* | | | | | | nom slang «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. 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