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title: Slang check: "narc" means a telltale; a "fiver" is a £5 note. — Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling · tree and pragmatics
description: Slang check: "narc" means a telltale; a "fiver" is a £5 note. Who acts: narc, Slang check. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling, sentence 18

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Slang check: "narc" means a telltale; a "fiver" is a £5 note.

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**Who acts:** narc, Slang check · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** telltale, £ note

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling» 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 (narc, Slang check), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:099-olympiad-dilemmas-friends-truth-and-telling.lesson:18
# text = Slang check: "narc" means a telltale; a "fiver" is a £5 note.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 099-olympiad-dilemmas-friends-truth-and-telling.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	narc	narc	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	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	telltale	telltale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	fiver	fiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	£	£	SYM	$	_	19	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	_
19	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19: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 | **mean** | present | narc | a telltale |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent telltale=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Slang check | a £ note |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:099-olympiad-dilemmas-friends-truth-and-telling.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): R6-punct-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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