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title: Picture Jack in Sydney on Christmas Day: "Stinkin' hot arvo, mate, o… — Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture Jack in Sydney on Christmas Day: "Stinkin' hot arvo, mate, off to the beach in me togs": "arvo" means afternoon and "togs" means a swimsuit, and it is summer there because the southern half of the Earth leans towards the Sun in December. Who acts: you, arvo, togs, southern half. A sentence o
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# Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★, sentence 3

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Picture Jack in Sydney on Christmas Day: "Stinkin' hot arvo, mate, off to the beach in me togs": "arvo" means afternoon and "togs" means a swimsuit, and it is summer there because the southern half of the Earth leans towards the Sun in December.

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**Who acts:** you, arvo, togs, southern half · **What happens:** picture, mean, be, lean · **To what, where:** Jack, Sydney, swimsuit, summer

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★» 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, arvo, togs, southern half), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:044-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons.lesson:3
# text = Picture Jack in Sydney on Christmas Day: "Stinkin' hot arvo, mate, off to the beach in me togs": "arvo" means afternoon and "togs" means a swimsuit, and it is summer there because the southern half of the Earth leans towards the Sun in December.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 044-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons.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): no change
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
10	Stinkin	stinkin	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	'	'	PART	POS	_	10	dep	_	_
12	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	arvo	arvo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	off	off	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
23	togs	tog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
27	arvo	arvo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
30	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	_
33	togs	tog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
35	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	swimsuit	swimsuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
42	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
43	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	advmod	_	_
44	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	51	nsubj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
51	leans	lean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	_
52	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
57	.	.	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* | Jack |  | Sydney | on Christmas Day |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent jack=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | present | arvo |  |  |  | afternoon |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | present | togs | a swimsuit |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swimsuit=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** | present | arvo | summer |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **lean** | present | the southern half of the Earth |  |  |  | december | towards the Sun | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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): no change. **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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