Slang and how it changes with every generation, sentence 4

Ordinary words drift too: "nice" once meant foolish, and today's slang might be tomorrow's plain word; slang also differs by place, from London's "peng" to Canada's "toque".

Who acts: Ordinary words, slang, today · What happens: drift, mean, be, differ, slang · To what, where: plain word

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 (Ordinary words, slang, today), 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	Ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 words	amod
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drift	nsubj
3	drift	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	3 drift	advmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 nice	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 nice	punct
7	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 words	appos
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 nice	punct
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 meant	advmod
10	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drift	parataxis
11	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 meant	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 word	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 word	cc
14	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 slang	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 today	case
16	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 word	nsubj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 word	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 word	cop
19	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 word	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 tomorrow	case
21	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 word	amod
22	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 meant	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 differs	punct
24	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 differs	nsubj
25	also	also	ADV	_	26 differs	advmod
26	differs	differ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 meant	parataxis
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 place	case
28	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 differs	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 peng	punct
30	from	from	ADP	_	34 peng	case
31	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 peng	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 London	case
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 peng	punct
34	peng	peng	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 differs	obl
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 peng	punct
36	to	to	ADP	_	40 toque	case
37	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 toque	nmod:poss
38	's	's	PART	_	37 Canada	case
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 toque	punct
40	toque	toque	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 differs	obl
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 toque	punct
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 meant	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	drift	present	Ordinary words				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	mean	past				foolish, once property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	might	today's slang	tomorrow's plain word	tomorrow		tree rules
4	differ	present	slang			by place; to Canada's toque; from London's peng	vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from peng=Co-Theme
5	slang		today				nom slang «communication transitive»: poss=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:4.

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): R6-punct-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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