Slang and how it changes with every generation, sentence 7
"No cap" means no lie, for real; in this slang a "cap" is a lie.
Who acts: cap · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: lie, slang
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 (cap), 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 | _ | 3 cap | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 cap | det |
| 3 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 cap | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 lie | det |
| 7 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 real | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 real | case |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 slang | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 slang | det |
| 14 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lie | obl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cap | det |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 cap | punct |
| 17 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lie | nsubj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 cap | punct |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 lie | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 lie | det |
| 21 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | no cap | no lie | for real | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot lie=Theme for real=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is a | present | a cap | a lie | this slang | tree rules |
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:7.
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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