Olympiad: logic traps and if-then ★★★, sentence 21
Words people use: "sus" means suspicious; "mid" means just average, not good; "ken" (Scotland) means know; "gadgie" (North East England) means a man, a bloke; "yinz" (Pittsburgh, USA) means you all.
Who acts: people, sus, mid, gadgie, Pittsburgh · What happens: use, mean, know · To what, where: Words, average, man, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: logic traps and if-then ★★★» 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, sus, mid, gadgie), 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 | 38 means | advcl |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sus | punct |
| 6 | sus | sus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sus | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 9 | suspicious | suspicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 means | xcomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 means | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 mid | punct |
| 12 | mid | mid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 means | nsubj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 mid | punct |
| 14 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 average | advmod |
| 16 | average | average | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 means | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 good | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 good | advmod |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 means | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 ken | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 ken | punct |
| 22 | ken | ken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 use | parataxis |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 ken | punct |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 Scotland | punct |
| 25 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 ken | appos |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 Scotland | punct |
| 27 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 ken | parataxis |
| 28 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 means | xcomp |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 gadgie | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 gadgie | punct |
| 31 | gadgie | gadgie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 means | nsubj |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 gadgie | punct |
| 33 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 East | punct |
| 34 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 East | amod |
| 35 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 gadgie | appos |
| 36 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 East | flat |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 36 England | punct |
| 38 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 man | det |
| 40 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 means | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 bloke | punct |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 bloke | det |
| 43 | bloke | bloke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 man | appos |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 yinz | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 yinz | punct |
| 46 | yinz | yinz | NOUN | _ | 40 man | appos |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 yinz | punct |
| 48 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 49 Pittsburgh | punct |
| 49 | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 means | nsubj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 USA | punct |
| 51 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 Pittsburgh | appos |
| 52 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 49 Pittsburgh | punct |
| 53 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 means | ccomp |
| 54 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 53 means | obj |
| 55 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 54 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 means | 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 | mean | present | sus | suspicious property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | mid | average | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent average=Topic | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | know not said to happen | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | mean | present | gadgie | a man | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | mean | present | Pittsburgh | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:world:193-olympiad-logic-traps-and-if-then.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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