--- title: Slang check: "leg it" means run away; "our kid" (Manchester, Liverpo… — Owning up when it is hard · tree and pragmatics description: Slang check: "leg it" means run away; "our kid" (Manchester, Liverpool) means my brother or sister; "chuck it" means throw it away. Who acts: kid. A sentence of the lesson «Owning up when it is hard» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/91-owning-up-when-it-is-hard/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Owning up when it is hard](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/91-owning-up-when-it-is-hard/) / 17 # Owning up when it is hard, sentence 17 Slang check: "leg it" means run away; "our kid" (Manchester, Liverpool) means my brother or sister; "chuck it" means throw it away. **Who acts:** kid · **What happens:** leg, mean, run away, chuck, throw away · **To what, where:** check, brother · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Owning up when it is hard» 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 (kid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:091-owning-up-when-it-is-hard.lesson:17 # text = Slang check: "leg it" means run away; "our kid" (Manchester, Liverpool) means my brother or sister; "chuck it" means throw it away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 091-owning-up-when-it-is-hard.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 check check NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 parataxis _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 leg leg VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 9 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 10 away away ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 13 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obj 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 17 Manchester Manchester PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:parataxis 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Liverpool Liverpool PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 21 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc 25 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 28 chuck chuck VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 31 nsubj _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 31 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 32 throw throw VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 away away ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leg** *in a quote* | infinitive | | check | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **run away** | present | | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **mean** | present | our kid | my brother or sister | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic | | 5 | **chuck** *in a quote* | infinitive | | check | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **throw away** | present | | check | | | | away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:091-owning-up-when-it-is-hard.lesson:17`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Owning up when it is hard, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/91-owning-up-when-it-is-hard/16/) - next →: [Cheating at school: copying and peeking, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/92-cheating-at-school-copying-and-peeking/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/91-owning-up-when-it-is-hard/)