Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★, sentence 4

Some puzzles test what people say: «the tunnel's like a thousand miles long» is hyperbole for a long tunnel, and «bit nippy, roads are like glass» can mean real ice.

Who acts: puzzles, people, tunnel, roads · What happens: test, say, be, mean · To what, where: » hyperbole, tunnel, real ice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★» of the technology 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 (puzzles, people, tunnel, roads), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 puzzles	det
2	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 test	nsubj
3	test	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 test	ccomp
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 test	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 tunnel	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tunnel	det
10	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 miles	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 miles	cop
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 miles	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 thousand	det
14	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 miles	nummod
15	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 say	ccomp
16	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 hyperbole	advmod
17	»	»	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 hyperbole	compound
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 hyperbole	cop
19	hyperbole	hyperbole	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tunnel	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 tunnel	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 tunnel	det
22	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tunnel	amod
23	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hyperbole	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 nippy	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 nippy	cc
26	«	«	PUNCT	_	27 bit	punct
27	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 nippy	obl:unmarked
28	nippy	nippy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tunnel	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 glass	punct
30	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 glass	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 glass	cop
32	like	like	ADP	_	33 glass	case
33	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tunnel	acl:relcl
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	33 glass	punct
35	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 mean	aux
36	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	ccomp
37	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 ice	amod
38	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 mean	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 test	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	test	present	some puzzles			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	people			tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	the tunnel and » hyperbole		like thousand miles	tree rules
4	is a	present	the tunnel and » hyperbole not said here	» hyperbole	for a long tunnel; long property	tree rules
5	is in a quote	present	roads	the tunnel and » hyperbole not said here	like glass	tree rules
6	mean	can		real ice		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Topic

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:technology:043-olympiad-transport-building-and-energy.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): R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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