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title: Words in this lesson: "mid" means average or not very good; "I'm dea… — Cherry-picked clips and clickbait headlines · tree and pragmatics
description: Words in this lesson: "mid" means average or not very good; "I'm dead" means "that's so funny"; "dreich" is Scottish for grey and wet weather; "yeah nah" in Australia and New Zealand means no. Who acts: Words, headline, that, dreich. A sentence of the lesson «Cherry-picked clips and clickbait headli
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# Cherry-picked clips and clickbait headlines, sentence 16

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Words in this lesson: "mid" means average or not very good; "I'm dead" means "that's so funny"; "dreich" is Scottish for grey and wet weather; "yeah nah" in Australia and New Zealand means no.

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**Who acts:** Words, headline, that, dreich · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** average, no. · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cherry-picked clips and clickbait headlines» of the politics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Words, headline, that, dreich), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:033-cherry-picked-clips-and-clickbait.lesson:16
# text = Words in this lesson: "mid" means average or not very good; "I'm dead" means "that's so funny"; "dreich" is Scottish for grey and wet weather; "yeah nah" in Australia and New Zealand means no.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 033-cherry-picked-clips-and-clickbait.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
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	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	mid	mid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:appos|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
21	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
24	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	ccomp	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
30	dreich	dreich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	_
38	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=42:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
41	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	42	discourse	_	_
42	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	49	discourse	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=49:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	New	New	PROPN	NNP	_	48	flat	_	_
48	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	_
49	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
50	no.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Words in this lesson | average |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent average=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a headline *= headline* |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present | Words in this lesson *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  | funny *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | dreich |  |  |  |  | for grey weather; scottish *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **mean** | present |  | no. |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent no.=Topic |

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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.

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**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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/).

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