★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles, sentence 12

In Yorkshire, «nesh» means someone who feels the cold easily, and «nobbut a bit fresh» means «only slightly cool»; a grandad saying «you're nesh, you» is teasing.

Who acts: grandad · What happens: mean, feel, say, tease · To what, where: someone, cold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles» 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 (grandad), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 Yorkshire	case
2	Yorkshire	Yorkshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 means	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 nesh	punct
5	nesh	nesh	INTJ	_	7 means	discourse
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 nesh	punct
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 means	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 feels	nsubj
10	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 someone	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cold	det
12	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feels	obj
13	easily	easily	ADV	_	10 feels	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fresh	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fresh	cc
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 and	punct
17	nobbut	nobbut	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fresh	nsubj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bit	det
19	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fresh	obl:unmarked
20	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 means	conj
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 fresh	punct
22	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 means	conj
23	«	«	PUNCT	_	26 cool	punct
24	only	only	ADV	_	26 cool	advmod
25	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	26 cool	advmod
26	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 means	ccomp
27	»	»	PUNCT	_	26 cool	punct
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 saying	punct
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 grandad	det
30	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 saying	nsubj
31	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 means	conj
32	«	«	PUNCT	_	35 nesh	punct
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 nesh	nsubj
34	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 nesh	cop
35	nesh	nesh	INTJ	_	38 »	discourse
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 nesh	punct
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 nesh	dep
38	»	»	PUNCT	_	31 saying	punct
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 teasing	aux
40	teasing	tease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 saying	ccomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present		someone	in Yorkshire	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot someone=Theme in yorkshire=Attribute
2	feel	present		the cold	easily property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme
3	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	gerund	a grandad			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	tease	present · progressive				vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: 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:language:055-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles.lesson:12.

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, 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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