Olympiad: kitchen chemistry puzzles ★★★, sentence 18
Words from round the world: "nesh" (North of England and Midlands) means feeling the cold easily, "bussin'" (young US slang) means really tasty, and "fixin' to" (southern US) means about to.
Who acts: nesh, bussin, fixin · What happens: mean, feel · To what, where: cold
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: kitchen chemistry puzzles ★★★» of the chemistry 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 (nesh, bussin, fixin), 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 | Words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 world | case |
| 3 | round | round | ADP | _ | 5 world | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 world | det |
| 5 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Words | nmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 means | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 nesh | punct |
| 8 | nesh | nesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 means | nsubj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 nesh | punct |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 North | punct |
| 11 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 nesh | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 England | case |
| 13 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 North | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Midlands | cc |
| 15 | Midlands | Midlands | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 England | conj |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 North | punct |
| 17 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Words | parataxis |
| 18 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 means | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cold | det |
| 20 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 feeling | obj |
| 21 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 18 feeling | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bussin | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 bussin | punct |
| 24 | bussin | bussin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 means | nsubj |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 bussin | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 bussin | punct |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 slang | punct |
| 28 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 slang | amod |
| 29 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 slang | compound |
| 30 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bussin | appos |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 slang | punct |
| 32 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 means | parataxis |
| 33 | really | really | ADV | _ | 34 tasty | advmod |
| 34 | tasty | tasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 means | xcomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 fixin | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 fixin | cc |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 fixin | punct |
| 38 | fixin | fixin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 means | nsubj |
| 39 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 38 fixin | punct |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 fixin | fixed |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 fixin | punct |
| 42 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 44 US | punct |
| 43 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 US | amod |
| 44 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 means | nsubj |
| 45 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 44 US | punct |
| 46 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 means | parataxis |
| 47 | about | about | ADV | _ | 46 means | advmod |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 about | fixed |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Words | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | nesh | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | feel not said to happen | gerund | nesh not said here | the cold | easily property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme | |||
| 3 | mean | present | bussin | tasty property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | fixin | about property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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:chemistry:036-olympiad-kitchen-chemistry-puzzles.lesson:18.
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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.
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