Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher, sentence 9

In current slang "mid" means average, not great, and the skull emoji 💀 means "I'm dead", that is, it's so funny or so bad.

Who acts: mid, skull emoji, London lad, emoji · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: average · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher» of the language 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, skull emoji, London lad, emoji), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 slang	case
2	current	current	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 slang	amod
3	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	obl
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 mid	punct
5	mid	mid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	nsubj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 mid	punct
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	average	average	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 means	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 great	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 great	advmod
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 average	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 means	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 means	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 emoji	det
15	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 emoji	compound
16	emoji	emoji	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 means	nsubj
17	💀	💀	SYM	_	16 emoji	punct
18	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 means	conj
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 dead	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 dead	nsubj
21	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 dead	cop
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 means	ccomp
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 dead	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 funny	punct
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 is	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 funny	cop
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 is	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 funny	nsubj
29	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 funny	cop
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 funny	advmod
31	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 means	ccomp
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 bad	cc
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 bad	advmod
34	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 funny	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	mid	average	in current slang	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot average=Theme in slang=Attribute
2	mean	present	the skull emoji			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	a London lad = lad		dead property	tree rules
4	is	present	emoji		funny property	tree rules
5	be		emoji not said here			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:language:016-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher.lesson:9.

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, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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