Slang and how it changes with every generation, sentence 16
"Rad", short for radical, was 1970s and 1980s American surfer and skater slang for excellent; the ordinary word radical means a very big or extreme change.
Who acts: Rad, ordinary word · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: American surfer, big change
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 (Rad, ordinary word), 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 Rad | punct |
| 2 | Rad | rad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 surfer | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rad | punct |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 short | punct |
| 5 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Rad | amod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 radical | case |
| 7 | radical | radical | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 short | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rad | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 surfer | cop |
| 10 | 1970s | 1970s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 14 surfer | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 1980s | cc |
| 12 | 1980s | 1980s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 10 1970s | conj |
| 13 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 surfer | amod |
| 14 | surfer | surfer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 slang | cc |
| 16 | skater | skater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 slang | compound |
| 17 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 surfer | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 excellent | case |
| 19 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 slang | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 means | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 radical | det |
| 22 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 word | amod |
| 23 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 means | nsubj |
| 24 | radical | radical | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 means | nsubj |
| 25 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 surfer | parataxis |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 change | det |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 big | advmod |
| 28 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 change | amod |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 extreme | cc |
| 30 | extreme | extreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 big | conj |
| 31 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 means | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 surfer | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Rad | American surfer and skater slang for excellent | 1970s and 1980s obl:unmarked | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mean | present | ordinary word | a big change | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=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, 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:16.
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. 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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