Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★, sentence 4
People react in their own words: "mid" means so-so, "lowkey" means a bit or quietly, an Australian "heaps" means lots, and a Scottish "dreich" means grey and gloomy weather.
Who acts: People, mid, lowkey, Australian heaps, Scottish dreich · What happens: react, mean, word · To what, where: own words, bit, lots, grey weather
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★» of the arts 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 (People, mid, lowkey, Australian heaps), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 react | nsubj |
| 2 | react | react | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 words | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 words | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 words | amod |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 react | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 mid | punct |
| 9 | mid | mid | X | _ | 11 means | nsubj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 mid | punct |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 react | parataxis |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 means | advmod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 so | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 means | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 so | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 lowkey | punct |
| 17 | lowkey | lowkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 means | nsubj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 lowkey | punct |
| 19 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 means | ccomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bit | det |
| 21 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 means | obj |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 quietly | cc |
| 23 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 21 bit | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 heaps | punct |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 heaps | det |
| 26 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 heaps | amod |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 heaps | punct |
| 28 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 means | nsubj |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 heaps | punct |
| 30 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 means | parataxis |
| 31 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 means | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 means | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 means | cc |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 dreich | det |
| 35 | Scottish | Scottish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 dreich | amod |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 dreich | punct |
| 37 | dreich | dreich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 means | nsubj |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 dreich | punct |
| 39 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 means | parataxis |
| 40 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 weather | amod |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 gloomy | cc |
| 42 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 grey | conj |
| 43 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 means | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 react | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | react | present | People | People's own words | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | mid | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | lowkey | a bit | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Topic | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | a Australian heaps | lots | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | a Scottish dreich | grey weather | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=Topic | ||||
| 6 | word | People | nom word «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:arts:042-olympiad-picture-puzzles.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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