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title: Slang check: "nicked" means stole; "lol" means laughing out loud; "g… — Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly · tree and pragmatics
description: Slang check: "nicked" means stole; "lol" means laughing out loud; "gurt" (West Country) means very or big. Who acts: Slang check, gurt. A sentence of the lesson «Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly, sentence 18

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Slang check: "nicked" means stole; "lol" means laughing out loud; "gurt" (West Country) means very or big.

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**Who acts:** Slang check, gurt · **What happens:** nick, mean, laugh out · **To what, where:** stole · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly» 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, gurt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:096-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly.lesson:18
# text = Slang check: "nicked" means stole; "lol" means laughing out loud; "gurt" (West Country) means very or big.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 096-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly.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 ×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	7	nsubj	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	nicked	nick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:acl
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	stole	stole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:ccomp
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	gurt	gurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
22	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Country	Country	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
25	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nick** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Slang check | stole |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stole=Topic |
| 3 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **laugh out** *not said to happen* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **mean** | present | gurt |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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