Slang and how it changes with every generation, sentence 15

In London youth slang "peng" means great or good-looking and "bare" means very or lots; in parts of the North "mint" means great and "aye" means yes.

Who acts: London youth slang, bare, North mint, aye · What happens: mean, look · To what, where: lots

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 (London youth slang, bare, North mint, aye), 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	_	4 slang	case
2	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 slang	compound
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slang	compound
4	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 peng	punct
6	peng	peng	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slang	appos
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 peng	punct
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 means	xcomp
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 great	cc
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 great	conj
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 good	punct
13	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 good	flat
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 means	cc
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 bare	punct
16	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 means	nsubj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 bare	punct
18	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 means	conj
19	very	very	ADV	_	21 lots	advmod
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 lots	cc
21	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 means	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 parts	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 parts	case
24	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 means	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	29 mint	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mint	det
27	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 mint	compound
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 mint	punct
29	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 means	nsubj
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 mint	punct
31	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 means	parataxis
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 means	xcomp
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 means	cc
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 aye	punct
35	aye	aye	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 means	nsubj
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 aye	punct
37	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 means	conj
38	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	37 means	discourse
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	London youth slang		great property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	look	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	mean	present	bare	lots		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic
4	mean	present	the North mint		in parts; great property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in part=Attribute
5	mean	present	aye			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:15.

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): R1-cc-next ×2. 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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