Slang and how it changes with every generation, sentence 3
Slang is often silly taken word by word: "the bee's knees" (1920s, excellent), "don't have a cow" (calm down), "skibidi" (often just a fun nonsense word); you read the whole phrase, not each word.
Who acts: Slang, you · What happens: be, take, not have, calm down, read · To what, where: word, cow, skibidi, whole phrase · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Slang, you), 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 | Slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 silly | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 silly | cop |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 silly | advmod |
| 4 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 silly | advcl |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 word | case |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 knees | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 knees | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bee | det |
| 12 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knees | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 bee | case |
| 14 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 word | appos |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 knees | punct |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 1920s | punct |
| 17 | 1920s | 1920s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 14 knees | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 excellent | punct |
| 19 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 knees | acl:relcl |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 knees | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 23 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 25 have | aux |
| 24 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 have | advmod |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 word | parataxis |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 cow | det |
| 27 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obj |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 calm | punct |
| 30 | calm | calm | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 25 have | parataxis |
| 31 | down | down | ADP | _ | 30 calm | compound:prt |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 calm | punct |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 skibidi | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 skibidi | punct |
| 35 | skibidi | skibidi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 calm | obl |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 skibidi | punct |
| 37 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 43 word | punct |
| 38 | often | often | ADV | _ | 43 word | advmod |
| 39 | just | just | ADV | _ | 43 word | advmod |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 word | det |
| 41 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 word | amod |
| 42 | nonsense | nonsense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 word | amod |
| 43 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 skibidi | appos |
| 44 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 43 word | punct |
| 45 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 read | punct |
| 46 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 47 read | nsubj |
| 47 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 silly | conj |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 phrase | det |
| 49 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 phrase | amod |
| 50 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 read | obj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 word | punct |
| 52 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 54 word | advmod |
| 53 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 54 word | det |
| 54 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 read | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 silly | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Slang | often, silly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | participle | Slang not said here | word | by word | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||
| 3 | not have in a quote | infinitive · do-support | a cow | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | calm down | infinitive | skibidi | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | read | past | you | the whole phrase | each word obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phrase=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:3.
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): 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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