Slang and how it changes with every generation, sentence 8
Skibidi comes from a 2023 YouTube animated series; kids use it as a fun word that can mean cool, bad or nothing, and it was added to the Cambridge Dictionary in 2025.
Who acts: Skibidi, kids, fun word · What happens: come, use, mean, add · To what, where: YouTube animated series, Slang, cool, 2025
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 (Skibidi, kids, fun 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 | Skibidi | Skibidi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 series | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 series | det |
| 5 | 2023 | 2023 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 series | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | YouTube | YouTube | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 series | compound |
| 7 | animated | animated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 series | amod |
| 8 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 use | punct |
| 10 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 use | nsubj |
| 11 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 comes | parataxis |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 use | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 word | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 word | det |
| 15 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 word | amod |
| 16 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 use | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 mean | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 mean | aux |
| 19 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 word | acl:relcl |
| 20 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mean | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bad | punct |
| 22 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cool | conj |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 nothing | cc |
| 24 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 cool | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 added | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 added | cc |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 added | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 added | aux:pass |
| 29 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 comes | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 Dictionary | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Dictionary | det |
| 32 | Cambridge | cambridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Dictionary | compound |
| 33 | Dictionary | dictionary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 added | obl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 2025 | case |
| 35 | 2025 | 2025 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 added | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Skibidi | a YouTube animated series 2023 | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from series=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | use | present | kids | Slang | as a fun word | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Duration as word=Attribute | |||
| 3 | mean | can | a fun word | cool | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cool=Topic | ||||
| 4 | add speech: assert | past · passive | Slang | 2025 | to the Cambridge Dictionary | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to dictionary=Co-Patient |
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:8.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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