Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★, sentence 3
Picture Jack in Sydney on Christmas Day: "Stinkin' hot arvo, mate, off to the beach in me togs": "arvo" means afternoon and "togs" means a swimsuit, and it is summer there because the southern half of the Earth leans towards the Sun in December.
Who acts: you, arvo, togs, southern half · What happens: picture, mean, be, lean · To what, where: Jack, Sydney, swimsuit, summer
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★» of the physics 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 (you, arvo, togs, southern half), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Sydney | case |
| 4 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Jack | nmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Day | case |
| 6 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Day | compound |
| 7 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Jack | nmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 arvo | punct |
| 10 | Stinkin | stinkin | ADV | _ | 12 hot | advmod |
| 11 | ' | ' | PART | _ | 10 Stinkin | dep |
| 12 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 arvo | amod |
| 13 | arvo | arvo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 togs | compound |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mate | punct |
| 15 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 arvo | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 off | punct |
| 17 | off | off | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 arvo | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 beach | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 beach | det |
| 20 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 off | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 arvo | obl |
| 23 | togs | tog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Jack | appos |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 togs | punct |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 means | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 arvo | punct |
| 27 | arvo | arvo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 means | nsubj |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 arvo | punct |
| 29 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 30 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 means | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 means | cc |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 togs | punct |
| 33 | togs | tog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 means | nsubj |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 togs | punct |
| 35 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 means | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 swimsuit | det |
| 37 | swimsuit | swimsuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 means | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 summer | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 summer | cc |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 summer | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 summer | cop |
| 42 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 means | conj |
| 43 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 summer | advmod |
| 44 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 51 leans | mark |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 half | det |
| 46 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 half | amod |
| 47 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 51 leans | nsubj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 Earth | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 Earth | det |
| 50 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 half | nmod |
| 51 | leans | lean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 summer | advcl |
| 52 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 54 Sun | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 Sun | det |
| 54 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 leans | obl |
| 55 | in | in | ADP | _ | 56 December | case |
| 56 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 leans | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | Jack | Sydney | on Christmas Day | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent jack=Theme | ||
| 2 | mean | present | arvo | afternoon | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | togs | a swimsuit | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swimsuit=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | arvo | summer | there | tree rules | |||
| 5 | lean | present | the southern half of the Earth | december | towards the Sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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:physics:044-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons.lesson:3.
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): no change. 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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