--- title: Words in this lesson: "it's giving" means "it looks like" or "it fee… — Algorithms, bubbles and false balance · tree and pragmatics description: Words in this lesson: "it's giving" means "it looks like" or "it feels like"; "highkey" means openly or very; "fixin' to" in the US South means about to; "gurt" in the West Country means big. Who acts: way, it, highkey, gurt. 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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 (way, it, highkey, gurt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:034-algorithms-bubbles-and-false-balance.lesson:16 # text = Words in this lesson: "it's giving" means "it looks like" or "it feels like"; "highkey" means openly or very; "fixin' to" in the US South means about to; "gurt" in the West Country means big. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 034-algorithms-bubbles-and-false-balance.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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 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 : _ 11 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 appos _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 15 like like SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advcl 21 like like SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 25 highkey highkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl:relcl _ _ 28 openly openly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 very very ADV RB _ 28 conj _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 33 fixin fixin NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 34 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 14 xcomp _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 41 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 42 about about ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 42 fixed _ _ 44 ; ; PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 " " PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ _ 46 gurt gurt NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ 48 in in ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 50 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 51 Country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ _ 52 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 ccomp _ _ 53 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 xcomp _ _ 54 . . 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 | **give** *in a quote* | present · progressive | way | | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **look** *in a quote* | present | way | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **feel** *in a quote* | present | it | fixin | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **mean** | present | highkey | | | | | openly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **mean** | present | way *not said here* | | | the US South | | about *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **mean** | present | gurt | | | | | in the West Country; big *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:politics:034-algorithms-bubbles-and-false-balance.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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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: [Algorithms, bubbles and false balance, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/34-algorithms-bubbles-and-false-balance/15/) - next →: [How to check: who, how, who else, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/35-how-to-check-who-how-who-else/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/34-algorithms-bubbles-and-false-balance/)