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title: Slang check: "proper job" (Cornwall) means fine, all good; "yinz" (P… — Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the tru… · tree and pragmatics
description: Slang check: "proper job" (Cornwall) means fine, all good; "yinz" (Pittsburgh) means you all; "well over it" means completely over it. Who acts: Slang check, Pittsburgh, job. A sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside» of the religion ethics course of Mova's 
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# Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside, sentence 18

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Slang check: "proper job" (Cornwall) means fine, all good; "yinz" (Pittsburgh) means you all; "well over it" means completely over it.

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**Who acts:** Slang check, Pittsburgh, job · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** fine, you, check

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside» 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, Pittsburgh, job), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:098-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside.lesson:18
# text = Slang check: "proper job" (Cornwall) means fine, all good; "yinz" (Pittsburgh) means you all; "well over it" means completely over it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 098-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:appos
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	all	all	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	yinz	yinz	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	appos	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
23	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	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	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
28	well	well	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	over	over	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
33	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	over	over	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Slang check | fine |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Pittsburgh | you |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |
| 3 | **mean** | present | job | check |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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**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, R7-rel-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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