Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★, sentence 21
Words people use: "fixin' to" (southern USA) means about to; "tamping" (Wales) means furious; "dreich" (Scotland) means grey and drizzly; "servo" (Australia) means a petrol station; "bday" is short for birthday.
Who acts: people, southern USA, tamping, dreich, servo, bday · What happens: use, fixin, mean, be · To what, where: Words, grey, petrol station · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★» of the world 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 (people, southern USA, tamping, dreich), 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 | 3 use | obj |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | nsubj |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fixin | punct |
| 6 | fixin | fixin | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 fixin | punct |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 " | mark |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fixin | punct |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 USA | punct |
| 11 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 USA | amod |
| 12 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 means | nsubj |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 USA | punct |
| 14 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 means | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 about | fixed |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 tamping | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 tamping | punct |
| 19 | tamping | tamping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 means | nsubj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 tamping | punct |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 Wales | punct |
| 22 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 tamping | appos |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 Wales | punct |
| 24 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 25 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 means | xcomp |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 dreich | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 dreich | punct |
| 28 | dreich | dreich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 means | nsubj |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 dreich | punct |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 Scotland | punct |
| 31 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 means | nsubj |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 Scotland | punct |
| 33 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 34 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 means | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 drizzly | cc |
| 36 | drizzly | drizzly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 grey | conj |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 means | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 servo | punct |
| 39 | servo | servo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 means | nsubj |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 servo | punct |
| 41 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 42 Australia | punct |
| 42 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 servo | appos |
| 43 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 42 Australia | punct |
| 44 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 means | parataxis |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 station | det |
| 46 | petrol | petrol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 station | compound |
| 47 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 means | obj |
| 48 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 53 short | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 50 bday | punct |
| 50 | bday | bday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 short | nsubj |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 50 bday | punct |
| 52 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 short | cop |
| 53 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 means | parataxis |
| 54 | for | for | ADP | _ | 55 birthday | case |
| 55 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 short | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | people | Words | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent word=Theme clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | fixin in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | mean | present | southern USA | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | tamping | furious property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | dreich | grey | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grey=Topic | ||||
| 6 | mean | present | servo | a petrol station | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent station=Topic | ||||
| 7 | is | present | bday | for birthday; short property | tree rules |
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:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles.lesson:21.
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, R7-rel-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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