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title: Slang check: "wicked" (Maine, New England) means very; "y'all" (US S… — Why cheating hurts the cheat · tree and pragmatics
description: Slang check: "wicked" (Maine, New England) means very; "y'all" (US South) means you all. Who acts: Slang check, y'all. A sentence of the lesson «Why cheating hurts the cheat» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Why cheating hurts the cheat, sentence 21

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Slang check: "wicked" (Maine, New England) means very; "y'all" (US South) means you all.

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**Who acts:** Slang check, y'all · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Why cheating hurts the cheat» 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, 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:094-why-cheating-hurts-the-cheat.lesson:21
# text = Slang check: "wicked" (Maine, New England) means very; "y'all" (US South) means you all.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 094-why-cheating-hurts-the-cheat.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 ×2
1	Slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Maine	Maine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	New	New	PROPN	NNP	_	8	conj	_	_
11	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	y'all	y'all	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obj
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
20	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
23	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	nmod:unmarked	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Slang check |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | y'all | you |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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**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:094-why-cheating-hurts-the-cheat.lesson:21`.

**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 ×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/).

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