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title: Words in this lesson: "wicked" in New England means very; "mardy" in… — Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decid… · tree and pragmatics
description: Words in this lesson: "wicked" in New England means very; "mardy" in the North and Midlands of England means grumpy; "heaps" in Australia means very or lots; "fixin' to" in the US South means about to; "delulu" means hoping for something that won't happen. Who acts: Words, mardy, heaps, US South. A 
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# Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★, sentence 17

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Words in this lesson: "wicked" in New England means very; "mardy" in the North and Midlands of England means grumpy; "heaps" in Australia means very or lots; "fixin' to" in the US South means about to; "delulu" means hoping for something that won't happen.

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**Who acts:** Words, mardy, heaps, US South, delulu · **What happens:** mean, hope, not happen · **To what, where:** fixin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★» of the politics 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 (Words, mardy, heaps, US South), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:041-olympiad-fair-votes-close-counts-and-who-decides.lesson:17
# text = Words in this lesson: "wicked" in New England means very; "mardy" in the North and Midlands of England means grumpy; "heaps" in Australia means very or lots; "fixin' to" in the US South means about to; "delulu" means hoping for something that won't happen.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 041-olympiad-fair-votes-close-counts-and-who-decides.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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:parataxis
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	New	New	PROPN	NNP	_	11	amod	_	_
11	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
12	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	mardy	mardy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Midlands	Midlands	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
26	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
29	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:obl
33	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
34	very	very	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:conj
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	_
39	fixin	fixin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
40	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
48	about	about	ADV	RB	_	47	ccomp	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	fixed	_	_
50	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	52	punct	_	_
52	delulu	delulu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
53	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	52	punct	_	_
54	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
55	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	54	ccomp	_	_
56	for	for	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	55	obl	_	_
58	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	61	nsubj	_	_
59	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	_
60	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	61	advmod	_	_
61	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	acl:relcl	_	_
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12: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 | **mean** | present | Words in this lesson in New England |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | mardy in the North of England and Midlands | fixin |  |  |  | grumpy *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fixin=Topic |
| 3 | **mean** | present | heaps in Australia |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mean** | present | the US South |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **mean** | present | delulu |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **hope** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for something | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for something=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **happen** | future |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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