--- title: In Yorkshire, «nesh» means someone who feels the cold easily, and «n… — ★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles · tree and pragmatics description: In Yorkshire, «nesh» means someone who feels the cold easily, and «nobbut a bit fresh» means «only slightly cool»; a grandad saying «you're nesh, you» is teasing. Who acts: grandad. 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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 (grandad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:055-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles.lesson:12 # text = In Yorkshire, «nesh» means someone who feels the cold easily, and «nobbut a bit fresh» means «only slightly cool»; a grandad saying «you're nesh, you» is teasing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 055-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Yorkshire Yorkshire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 nesh nesh INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ _ 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 obj _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 easily easily ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 17 nobbut nobbut NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advcl:relcl 23 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 24 only only ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 slightly slightly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 ccomp _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 grandad grandad NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 32 « « PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 nesh nesh INTJ UH _ 38 discourse _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 dep _ _ 38 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 teasing tease VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 ccomp _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | | someone | | | | in Yorkshire | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot someone=Theme in yorkshire=Attribute | | 2 | **feel** | present | | the cold | | | | easily *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a grandad | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **tease** | present · progressive | | | | | | | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:language:055-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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