Texting, abbreviations and emoji, sentence 6

Many young people use 💀 to mean "I'm dying of laughter"; older people may read it as being about death.

Who acts: Many young people, older people · What happens: use, mean, die, read, be · To what, where: laughter · 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 (Many young people, 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	nsubj
4	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	💀	💀	SYM	_	4 use	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 mean	mark
7	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 use	advcl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 dying	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 dying	nsubj
10	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 dying	aux
11	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 mean	ccomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 laughter	case
13	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dying	obl
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 dying	punct
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 read	punct
16	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 people	amod
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 read	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 read	aux
19	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 use	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 read	obj
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 death	mark
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 death	cop
23	about	about	ADP	_	24 death	case
24	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 read	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 use	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	present	Many young people			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 💀=Patient
2	mean	to-infinitive	Many young people not said here			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	die in a quote	present · progressive	some older people = people		of laughter	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of laughter=Causer
4	read	may	older people	laughter		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	is	gerund	older people not said here		about death	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:030-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji.lesson:6.

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): R7-rel-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.

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