--- title: Picture Finn from Glasgow on a dreich night (dull and drizzly, in Sc… — Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Picture Finn from Glasgow on a dreich night (dull and drizzly, in Scots), saying "That wee star's been up there a million years, ken" ("ken" means you know) - the million is hyperbole, but the real puzzle is how long its light has been travelling. Who acts: Picture Finn, wee star, ken, you. 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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 (Picture Finn, wee star, ken, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:032-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history.lesson:3 # text = Picture Finn from Glasgow on a dreich night (dull and drizzly, in Scots), saying "That wee star's been up there a million years, ken" ("ken" means you know) - the million is hyperbole, but the real puzzle is how long its light has been travelling. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 032-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 Picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Finn finn NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Glasgow Glasgow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 dreich dreich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 10 dull dull ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 drizzly drizzly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Scots Scot PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 10 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 20 That that DET DT PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 21 wee wee ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 23 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:POS:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 cop _ _ 25 up up ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 26 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advmod 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 ken ken VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 advcl _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 37 punct _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 35 ken ken NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 37 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl:relcl _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 ccomp _ _ 40 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct 41 - - PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=45:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=45:det 43 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 45 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=45:nummod 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 45 hyperbole hyperbole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 46 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 47 but but CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 puzzle puzzle NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nsubj _ _ 51 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 cop _ _ 52 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 53 advmod _ _ 53 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 45 conj _ _ 54 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 55 nmod:poss _ _ 55 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 nsubj _ _ 56 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 58 aux _ _ 57 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 58 aux _ _ 58 travelling travel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 53 ccomp _ _ 59 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Picture Finn from Glasgow on a dreich night *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | participle | that wee star | | | | year | there *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **ken** *in a quote* | participle | that wee star *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | ken | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **know** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is** | present | the million | | | | | hyperbole *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | present | the real puzzle | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **travel** | present · perfect · progressive | puzzle's light | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **light** | | puzzle | | | | | | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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:space:032-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history.lesson:3`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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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