Texting, abbreviations and emoji, sentence 4

LOL means "laughing out loud"; some older people once thought it meant "lots of love", and today it is often used just to sound friendly.

Who acts: LOL, older people · What happens: mean, laugh out, think, use, sound · To what, where: lots, LOL · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Texting, abbreviations and emoji» 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 (LOL, older people), 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	LOL	lol	NOUN	_	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 laughing	punct
4	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	ccomp
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 laughing	compound:prt
6	loud	loud	ADV	_	4 laughing	advmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 laughing	punct
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 people	punct
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 people	det
10	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 people	amod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 thought	nsubj
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 thought	advmod
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 means	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 meant	nsubj
15	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thought	ccomp
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 lots	punct
17	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 meant	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 love	case
19	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lots	nmod
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 lots	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 used	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 used	cc
23	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 used	obl:unmarked
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 used	nsubj:pass
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 used	aux:pass
26	often	often	ADV	_	27 used	advmod
27	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 thought	conj
28	just	just	ADV	_	30 sound	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 sound	mark
30	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 used	advcl
31	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 sound	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	LOL				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	laugh out in a quote	gerund				loud property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	past	some older people			once property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	mean	past	LOL	lots of love			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic
5	use	present · passive		LOL	today	often property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	sound	to-infinitive				friendly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:030-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji.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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