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title: Picture Jaz from Yorkshire groaning "This box weighs a ton, I'm lite… — Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture Jaz from Yorkshire groaning "This box weighs a ton, I'm literally dying, our kid": "our kid" means my brother, and the ton and the dying are hyperbole, a heavy box and a tired boy, which a pulley can help. Who acts: you, box, I, kid. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: forces, floating and m
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# Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★, sentence 4

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Picture Jaz from Yorkshire groaning "This box weighs a ton, I'm literally dying, our kid": "our kid" means my brother, and the ton and the dying are hyperbole, a heavy box and a tired boy, which a pulley can help.

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**Who acts:** you, box, I, kid, ton, pulley · **What happens:** picture, groan, weigh, die, mean, be · **To what, where:** Jaz, Yorkshire, ton, brother, hyperbole, heavy box · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★» of the physics 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 (you, box, I, kid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:042-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines.lesson:4
# text = Picture Jaz from Yorkshire groaning "This box weighs a ton, I'm literally dying, our kid": "our kid" means my brother, and the ton and the dying are hyperbole, a heavy box and a tired boy, which a pulley can help.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 042-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines.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 ×2
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	Jaz	Jaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Yorkshire	Yorkshire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	groaning	groan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	xcomp	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
7	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	weighs	weigh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ton	ton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
23	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	ton	ton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	dying	dying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
36	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	hyperbole	hyperbole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	obj	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	pulley	pulley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
50	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	parataxis	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | Jaz |  | Yorkshire |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent jaz=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **groan** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **weigh** *in a quote* | present | this box | a ton |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme ton=Value |
| 4 | **die** *in a quote* | present · progressive | I |  |  |  |  | literally *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **mean** | present | our kid | my brother |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic |
| 6 | **is a** | present | the ton and the dying | hyperbole |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **help** | can | a pulley | a heavy box and a tired boy |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Beneficiary |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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