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title: Words from round the world: "dreich" (Scotland) means grey and drizz… — Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Words from round the world: "dreich" (Scotland) means grey and drizzly, "lekker" (South Africa) means great, "arvo" (Australia) means afternoon, and "y'all" (southern US) means you all. Who acts: Words, lekker, arvo, y'all. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★» of th
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# Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★, sentence 20

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Words from round the world: "dreich" (Scotland) means grey and drizzly, "lekker" (South Africa) means great, "arvo" (Australia) means afternoon, and "y'all" (southern US) means you all.

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**Who acts:** Words, lekker, arvo, y'all · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** grey, great, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★» of the chemistry 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 (Words, lekker, arvo, y'all), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:037-olympiad-everyday-chemistry-detectives.lesson:20
# text = Words from round the world: "dreich" (Scotland) means grey and drizzly, "lekker" (South Africa) means great, "arvo" (Australia) means afternoon, and "y'all" (southern US) means you all.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 037-olympiad-everyday-chemistry-detectives.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, R6-punct-agree ×3
1	Words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	round	round	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	dreich	dreich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	drizzly	drizzly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
19	lekker	lekker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
22	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
25	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
29	arvo	arvo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
34	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
35	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	_
39	y'all	y'all	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
41	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	43	punct	_	_
42	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
44	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	43	punct	_	_
45	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
46	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	46	nmod:unmarked	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Words from the world | grey |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grey=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | lekker | great |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent great=Topic |
| 3 | **mean** | present | arvo |  |  |  | afternoon |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mean** | present | y'all | you |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |

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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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**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, 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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