Slang and how it changes with every generation, sentence 11
"Sick" meaning great became common in the 1980s and 1990s; "cringe" means embarrassing.
Who acts: cringe · What happens: mean, become
This is a sentence of the lesson «Slang and how it changes with every generation» 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 (cringe), 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 Sick | punct |
| 2 | Sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sick | punct |
| 4 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Sick | advcl |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 meaning | xcomp |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Sick | conj |
| 7 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 became | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 1980s | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 1980s | det |
| 10 | 1980s | 1980s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 7 common | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 1990s | cc |
| 12 | 1990s | 1990s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 10 1980s | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 means | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 cringe | punct |
| 15 | cringe | cringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 means | nsubj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 cringe | punct |
| 17 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Sick | conj |
| 18 | embarrassing | embarrassing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 means | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sick | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | gerund | great property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | become | past | common property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | cringe | embarrassing property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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:017-slang-and-how-it-changes-with-every-generation.lesson:11.
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): no change. 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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