--- title: Words people use: "bussin'" (US kids) means really good, especially… — Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats" · tree and pragmatics description: Words people use: "bussin'" (US kids) means really good, especially food; "mid" means just average; "fr" means "for real"; "tbh" means "to be honest"; "quid" (UK) means pounds; "lekker" (South Africa) means great or tasty; "y'all" (US South) means "you all". Who acts: people, bussin, mid, fr. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, bussin, mid, fr), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats.lesson:17 # text = Words people use: "bussin'" (US kids) means really good, especially food; "mid" means just average; "fr" means "for real"; "tbh" means "to be honest"; "quid" (UK) means pounds; "lekker" (South Africa) means great or tasty; "y'all" (US South) means "you all". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats.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 ×7, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 bussin bussin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj 7 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 10 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 really really ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 especially especially ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 mid mid NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 24 just just ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 average average ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:xcomp 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 fr fr NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 32 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 obl _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 37 tbh tbh NOUN NN _ 39 nsubj _ _ 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 39 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 40 " " PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 41 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 cop _ _ 43 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:ccomp 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=43:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 45 ; ; PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 46 " " PUNCT `` _ 47 punct _ _ 47 quid quid NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 48 " " PUNCT '' _ 47 punct _ _ 49 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 50 punct _ _ 50 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 appos _ _ 51 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 50 punct _ _ 52 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 parataxis _ _ 53 pounds pound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 obj _ _ 54 ; ; PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 55 " " PUNCT `` _ 56 punct _ _ 56 lekker lekker NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 nsubj _ _ 57 " " PUNCT '' _ 56 punct _ _ 58 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 60 punct _ _ 59 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 60 compound _ _ 60 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 56 appos _ _ 61 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 60 punct _ _ 62 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 conj _ _ 63 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 xcomp _ _ 64 or or CCONJ CC _ 65 cc _ _ 65 tasty tasty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 63 conj _ _ 66 ; ; PUNCT , _ 74 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=68:punct 67 " " PUNCT `` _ 68 punct _ _ 68 y'all y'all NOUN NN Number=Sing 74 nsubj _ _ 69 " " PUNCT '' _ 68 punct _ _ 70 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 71 punct _ _ 71 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 68 appos _ _ 72 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 71 flat _ _ 73 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 72 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=71:punct 74 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 75 " " PUNCT `` _ 76 punct _ _ 76 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 74 obj _ _ 77 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 76 flat _ _ 78 " " PUNCT '' _ 76 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=74:punct 79 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | people | Words | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | bussin | | | | | good *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | mid | average | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent average=Topic | | 4 | **mean** | present | fr | | | | | for real | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for real=Attribute | | 5 | **mean** | present | tbh | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | tbh *not said here* | | | | | honest *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **mean** | present | quid | pounds | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pound=Topic | | 8 | **mean** | present | lekker | | | | | great *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **mean** | present | y'all | you | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | 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. **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:world:176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats.lesson:17`. **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 ×7, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats/16/) - next →: ["Crime is up, I saw it on the news", 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats/)