--- title: Picture Cerys in Cardiff in a storm: "It's chucking it down, mun, an… — Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and ma… · tree and pragmatics description: Picture Cerys in Cardiff in a storm: "It's chucking it down, mun, and the thunder's a million miles off": "chucking it down" means pouring with rain, "mun" means mate, and "a million miles" is hyperbole, so she should count the seconds instead. Who acts: you, storm, thunder, chucking. 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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, storm, thunder, chucking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:043-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets.lesson:4 # text = Picture Cerys in Cardiff in a storm: "It's chucking it down, mun, and the thunder's a million miles off": "chucking it down" means pouring with rain, "mun" means mate, and "a million miles" is hyperbole, so she should count the seconds instead. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 043-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 Cerys Cerys PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Cardiff Cardiff PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 10 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 chucking chuck VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 csubj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 down down ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 mun mun NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 thunder thunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 21 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 25 off off ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 27 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 29 chucking chuck VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 csubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 down down ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 33 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 34 pouring pour VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 csubj _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 " " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 39 mun mun NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:appos 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 41 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 ccomp _ _ 42 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 45 " " PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 48 nummod _ _ 48 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 nsubj _ _ 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ _ 50 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 cop _ _ 51 hyperbole hyperbole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=41:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 52 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 53 so so ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 54 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 55 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 56 aux _ _ 56 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 conj _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 58 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 56 obj _ _ 59 instead instead ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 60 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | Cerys | | Cardiff | | in a storm | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent cerys=Theme | | 2 | **chuck down** *in a quote* | present · progressive | storm | same | | | | mun *obl* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the thunder | a million miles | | | | off *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **chuck down** *in a quote* | gerund | | same | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **mean** | present | chucking | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **pour** | gerund | | | | | | with rain | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rain=Theme | | 7 | **mean** | present | mun | mate | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic | | 8 | **is** | present | million miles | | | | | hyperbole *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **count** | should | mun | | | | second | instead *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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:physics:043-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets.lesson:4`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-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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