How best friends start, sentence 36

«Mid» is Gen Z slang for boring or average, «lowkey» means a bit or quietly, «ngl» means «not gonna lie», and «y'all» is Southern US for «you all».

Who acts: Mid, lowkey, ngl, y'all · What happens: be, mean, not lie · To what, where: Gen Z slang, bit, Southern US · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «How best friends start» of the everyday 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 (Mid, lowkey, ngl, y'all), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Mid	punct
2	Mid	mid	NOUN	_	7 slang	nsubj
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Mid	punct
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 slang	cop
5	Gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slang	compound
6	Z	z	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slang	compound
7	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 boring	case
9	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 slang	nmod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 average	cc
11	average	average	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boring	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 means	punct
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 lowkey	punct
14	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 means	nsubj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 lowkey	punct
16	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 slang	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bit	det
18	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 means	obl
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 quietly	cc
20	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	18 bit	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 means	punct
22	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 ngl	punct
23	ngl	ngl	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 means	nsubj
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 ngl	punct
25	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 means	conj
26	«	«	PUNCT	_	29 lie	punct
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 lie	advmod
28	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	29 lie	dep
29	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 means	ccomp
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	29 lie	punct
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 US	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 US	cc
33	«	«	PUNCT	_	34 y'all	punct
34	y'all	y'all	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 US	nsubj
35	»	»	PUNCT	_	34 y'all	punct
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 US	cop
37	Southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 US	amod
38	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 means	conj
39	for	for	ADP	_	41 you	case
40	«	«	PUNCT	_	41 you	punct
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 US	nmod
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 you	det
43	»	»	PUNCT	_	41 you	punct
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 slang	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mid	Gen Z slang	for boring	tree rules
2	mean	present	lowkey	a bit		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	mean	present	ngl			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not lie in a quote	infinitive				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	y'all	Southern US	for you	tree rules

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, 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:everyday:461-how-best-friends-start.lesson:36.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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.

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