--- title: Watch out for big talk: when Nan says "I've told you a million times… — Olympiad: kitchen chemistry puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Watch out for big talk: when Nan says "I've told you a million times, no foil in the microwave" she means many times, and when someone calls a pancake-thin sponge "a bit flat" they are playing it down. Who acts: you, Nan, someone, muffins. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Nan, someone, muffins), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:036-olympiad-kitchen-chemistry-puzzles.lesson:3 # text = Watch out for big talk: when Nan says "I've told you a million times, no foil in the microwave" she means many times, and when someone calls a pancake-thin sponge "a bit flat" they are playing it down. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 036-olympiad-kitchen-chemistry-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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3 1 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 out out ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 8 Nan Nan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 ccomp _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 20 det _ _ 20 foil foil NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 microwave microwave NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obl 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 27 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 32 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 33 nsubj _ _ 33 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 35 pancake pancake NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:compound 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ _ 37 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 sponge sponge NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 39 " " PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl:unmarked _ _ 42 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=46:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 44 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 conj _ _ 47 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 obj _ _ 48 down down ADP RP _ 46 compound:prt _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch out** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | for big talk | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for talk=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Nan | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · perfect | Nan | | you | | time | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **mean** | present | Nan | | | | time | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **call** | present | someone | a thin sponge | | | | flat *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sponge=Recipient | | 6 | **play down** | present · progressive | muffins *= muffin* | sponge | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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. **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:chemistry:036-olympiad-kitchen-chemistry-puzzles.lesson:3`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: kitchen chemistry puzzles ★★★, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/36-olympiad-kitchen-chemistry-puzzles/2/) - next →: [Olympiad: kitchen chemistry puzzles ★★★, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/36-olympiad-kitchen-chemistry-puzzles/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/36-olympiad-kitchen-chemistry-puzzles/)