Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★, sentence 17
Words in this lesson: "wicked" in New England means very; "mardy" in the North and Midlands of England means grumpy; "heaps" in Australia means very or lots; "fixin' to" in the US South means about to; "delulu" means hoping for something that won't happen.
Who acts: Words, mardy, heaps, US South, delulu · What happens: mean, hope, not happen · To what, where: fixin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★» of the politics 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 (Words, mardy, heaps, US South), 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 | 12 means | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 lesson | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 lesson | det |
| 4 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Words | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 wicked | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 wicked | punct |
| 7 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 means | nsubj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 wicked | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 England | case |
| 10 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 11 England | amod |
| 11 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Words | nmod |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 means | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 mardy | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 mardy | punct |
| 16 | mardy | mardy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 means | nsubj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 mardy | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 North | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 North | det |
| 20 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 mardy | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Midlands | cc |
| 22 | Midlands | Midlands | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 North | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 England | case |
| 24 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 North | nmod |
| 25 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 means | parataxis |
| 26 | grumpy | grumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 means | xcomp |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 means | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 heaps | punct |
| 29 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 means | nsubj |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 heaps | punct |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 Australia | case |
| 32 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 heaps | nmod |
| 33 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 means | parataxis |
| 34 | very | very | ADV | _ | 33 means | advmod |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 lots | cc |
| 36 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 very | conj |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 fixin | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 fixin | punct |
| 39 | fixin | fixin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 means | obj |
| 40 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 fixin | punct |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 " | mark |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 fixin | punct |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 South | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 South | det |
| 45 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 South | compound |
| 46 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 means | nsubj |
| 47 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 means | parataxis |
| 48 | about | about | ADV | _ | 47 means | ccomp |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 about | fixed |
| 50 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 54 means | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 delulu | punct |
| 52 | delulu | delulu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 means | nsubj |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 delulu | punct |
| 54 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 means | parataxis |
| 55 | hoping | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 54 means | ccomp |
| 56 | for | for | ADP | _ | 57 something | case |
| 57 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 55 hoping | obl |
| 58 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 61 happen | nsubj |
| 59 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 61 happen | aux |
| 60 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 61 happen | advmod |
| 61 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 57 something | acl:relcl |
| 62 | . | . | 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 | Words in this lesson in New England | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | mardy in the North of England and Midlands | fixin | grumpy property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fixin=Topic | |||
| 3 | mean | present | heaps in Australia | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | the US South | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | mean | present | delulu | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | hope | gerund | for something | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for something=Theme | |||||
| 7 | not happen | future | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
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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 ×5, R6-punct-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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