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title: Words people use: "lowkey" means a bit or secretly, "highkey" means… — "Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason · tree and pragmatics
description: Words people use: "lowkey" means a bit or secretly, "highkey" means very or openly, "shinies" are rare shiny cards, "iconic" means legendary, "case closed" means the matter is settled (here said sarcastically), and "deadly" here means scary-dangerous. Who acts: people, lowkey, highkey, shinies. A se
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# "Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason, sentence 27

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Words people use: "lowkey" means a bit or secretly, "highkey" means very or openly, "shinies" are rare shiny cards, "iconic" means legendary, "case closed" means the matter is settled (here said sarcastically), and "deadly" here means scary-dangerous.

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**Who acts:** people, lowkey, highkey, shinies, iconic, legendary case · **What happens:** use, mean, be, close, settle, say · **To what, where:** Words, bit, rare shiny cards, legendary case, matter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «"Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason» of the world 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 (people, lowkey, highkey, shinies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason.lesson:27
# text = Words people use: "lowkey" means a bit or secretly, "highkey" means very or openly, "shinies" are rare shiny cards, "iconic" means legendary, "case closed" means the matter is settled (here said sarcastically), and "deadly" here means scary-dangerous.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 166-everyone-has-one-the-crowd-is-not-a-reason.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	Words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	dislocated	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
15	highkey	highkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	openly	openly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	shinies	shiny	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
31	iconic	iconic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	nsubj	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
33	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl:relcl	_	_
34	legendary	legendary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
37	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
38	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
40	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	ccomp	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	ccomp	_	_
45	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	47	punct	_	_
46	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	47	advmod	_	_
47	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	conj	_	_
48	sarcastically	sarcastically	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
49	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	47	punct	_	_
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
52	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	53	punct	_	_
53	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	nsubj	_	_
54	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	53	punct	_	_
55	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	56	advmod	_	_
56	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
57	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
58	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	57	punct	_	_
59	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	ccomp	_	_
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **use** | present | people | Words *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 2 | **mean** | present | lowkey | a bit |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Topic |
| 3 | **mean** | present | highkey |  |  |  |  | Words *dislocated*; openly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | shinies | rare shiny cards |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **mean** | present | iconic |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **close** *in a quote* | participle |  | legendary case *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **mean** | present | legendary case |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **settle** | present · passive |  | the matter |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location |
| 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  | here |  | sarcastically *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **mean** | present | deadly |  |  | here |  |  | 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): 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.

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