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title: People react in their own words: "mid" means so-so, "lowkey" means a… — Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and my… · tree and pragmatics
description: People react in their own words: "mid" means so-so, "lowkey" means a bit or quietly, an Australian "heaps" means lots, and a Scottish "dreich" means grey and gloomy weather. Who acts: People, mid, lowkey, Australian heaps. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths
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# Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★, sentence 4

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People react in their own words: "mid" means so-so, "lowkey" means a bit or quietly, an Australian "heaps" means lots, and a Scottish "dreich" means grey and gloomy weather.

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**Who acts:** People, mid, lowkey, Australian heaps, Scottish dreich · **What happens:** react, mean, word · **To what, where:** own words, bit, lots, grey weather

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★» of the arts 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, mid, lowkey, Australian heaps), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:042-olympiad-picture-puzzles.lesson:4
# text = People react in their own words: "mid" means so-so, "lowkey" means a bit or quietly, an Australian "heaps" means lots, and a Scottish "dreich" means grey and gloomy weather.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 042-olympiad-picture-puzzles.lesson
# annotation = 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	react	react	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	mid	mid	X	XX	_	11	nsubj	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
17	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	21	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
28	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:appos
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
30	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
31	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
37	dreich	dreich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
39	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
40	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	conj	_	_
43	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **react** | present | People |  |  | People's own words |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | mid |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **mean** | present | lowkey | a bit |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Topic |
| 4 | **mean** | present | a Australian heaps | lots |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic |
| 5 | **mean** | present | a Scottish dreich | grey weather |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=Topic |
| 6 | **word** |  | People |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:arts:042-olympiad-picture-puzzles.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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