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title: Slang check: "bare" (London) means lots of; "mardy" (Midlands, North… — Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Slang check: "bare" (London) means lots of; "mardy" (Midlands, North) means sulky; "sus" means suspicious; "y'all" means you all; "no cap" means no lie. Who acts: Slang check, North, sus, y'all. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★» of the religion e
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# Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★, sentence 18

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Slang check: "bare" (London) means lots of; "mardy" (Midlands, North) means sulky; "sus" means suspicious; "y'all" means you all; "no cap" means no lie.

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**Who acts:** Slang check, North, sus, y'all, cap · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** lots, mardy Midlands, you, lie

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★» of the religion ethics 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 (Slang check, North, sus, y'all), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:103-olympiad-fair-or-unfair-chains-of-reasons-and-dilemmas.lesson:18
# text = Slang check: "bare" (London) means lots of; "mardy" (Midlands, North) means sulky; "sus" means suspicious; "y'all" means you all; "no cap" means no lie.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 103-olympiad-fair-or-unfair-chains-of-reasons-and-dilemmas.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
8	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	mardy	mardy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Midlands	midland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	North	North	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	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	sulky	sulky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
26	sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
29	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
32	y'all	y'all	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
34	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	parataxis	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:nmod:unmarked
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	_
39	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	40	det	_	_
40	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
42	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
43	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	44	det	_	_
44	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
```

## 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 | Slang check | lots |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | North | mardy Midlands *not said here* |  |  |  | sulky *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent midland=Topic |
| 3 | **mean** | present | sus |  |  |  |  | suspicious *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mean** | present | y'all | you |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |
| 5 | **mean** | present | no cap | no lie |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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/).

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