--- title: Slang check: "fixin' to" (Texas) means about to; "slaps" means is gr… — Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits · tree and pragmatics description: Slang check: "fixin' to" (Texas) means about to; "slaps" means is great; "my lover" in Cornwall and the West Country is a friendly word for dear. Who acts: Slang check, slaps. 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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 (Slang check, slaps), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:085-pretend-cover-stories-and-lies-that-become-habits.lesson:18 # text = Slang check: "fixin' to" (Texas) means about to; "slaps" means is great; "my lover" in Cornwall and the West Country is a friendly word for dear. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 085-pretend-cover-stories-and-lies-that-become-habits.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 check check NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 fixin fixin VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 appos _ _ 6 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 5 obl _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 12 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 about about ADP IN _ 12 ccomp _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 slaps slap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 ccomp _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 lover lover NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Cornwall Cornwall PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 Country Country PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fixin** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | Slang check | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | slaps | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | great *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | slaps *not said here* | a friendly word | | | | for dear | 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. 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