--- title: Slang check: "soz" means sorry; "k" in a text means OK, often a cold… — Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays b… · tree and pragmatics description: Slang check: "soz" means sorry; "k" in a text means OK, often a cold OK; "wee" (Belfast, Scotland) means little; "sweet as" (New Zealand) means fine. Who acts: soz, Slang check, wee, New Zealand. 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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 (soz, Slang check, wee, New Zealand), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:090-saying-sorry-and-making-amends-zacchaeus-pays-back.lesson:18 # text = Slang check: "soz" means sorry; "k" in a text means OK, often a cold OK; "wee" (Belfast, Scotland) means little; "sweet as" (New Zealand) means fine. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 090-saying-sorry-and-making-amends-zacchaeus-pays-back.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 check check NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 soz soz NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 8 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 k k NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:appos 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 text text NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 OK ok ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 often often ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 OK ok ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 wee wee NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 28 Belfast belfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 32 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 33 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:xcomp 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 36 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 parataxis _ _ 37 as as SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=43:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 39 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 41 punct _ _ 40 New New PROPN NNP _ 41 flat _ _ 41 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 42 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 41 punct _ _ 43 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 44 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 xcomp _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16: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 | soz | | | | | sorry *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | Slang check | | | | | in a text; ok *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in text=Attribute | | 3 | **mean** | present | wee | little | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | New Zealand | | | | | fine *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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:090-saying-sorry-and-making-amends-zacchaeus-pays-back.lesson:18`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. 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