---
title: "Fast" can mean quick, and it can also mean going without food on pu… — Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words · tree and pragmatics
description: "Fast" can mean quick, and it can also mean going without food on purpose ("to fast"). Who acts: Fast, lipogram. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words/12/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidde…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words/) / 12

# Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words, sentence 12

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
"Fast" can mean quick, and it can also mean going without food on purpose ("to fast").

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Fast, lipogram · **What happens:** mean, go · **To what, where:** purpose

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words» of the english 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 (Fast, lipogram), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:057-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words.lesson:12
# text = "Fast" can mean quick, and it can also mean going without food on purpose ("to fast").
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 057-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:ccomp
14	without	without	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: other
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | can | Fast |  |  |  |  | quick *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | can | lipogram |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *not said to happen* | gerund | lipogram *not said here* |  |  | purpose |  | without food | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:english:057-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words.lesson:12`.

**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): 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.

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

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidde…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words/10/)
- next →: [Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidde…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words/13/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words/)