--- title: Slang check: "mid" means average, nothing special; "boss" in Liverpo… — White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing · tree and pragmatics description: Slang check: "mid" means average, nothing special; "boss" in Liverpool means great; "wicked" in Boston means very; "pet" in the North of England is a kind word like "love". Who acts: mid, Slang check, wicked, North England. 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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, Slang check, wicked, North England), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:083-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing.lesson:19 # text = Slang check: "mid" means average, nothing special; "boss" in Liverpool means great; "wicked" in Boston means very; "pet" in the North of England is a kind word like "love". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 083-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing.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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 check check NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 mid mid X AFX _ 7 nsubj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 8 average average ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:xcomp 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 2 appos _ _ 11 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:appos 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Liverpool Liverpool PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod 18 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 in in SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 Boston Boston PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nsubj 26 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 27 very very ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 30 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:det 34 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 41 like like ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 " " PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ _ 43 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18: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 | average | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent average=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | present | Slang check | great | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent great=Topic | | 3 | **mean** | present | wicked Boston | pet | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Topic | | 4 | **is** | present | North England | | | a kind word | | like love | 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:religion-ethics:083-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing.lesson:19`. **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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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