--- title: Words people use: "fixin' to" (southern USA) means about to; "tampin… — Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Words people use: "fixin' to" (southern USA) means about to; "tamping" (Wales) means furious; "dreich" (Scotland) means grey and drizzly; "servo" (Australia) means a petrol station; "bday" is short for birthday. Who acts: people, southern USA, tamping, dreich. 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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 (people, southern USA, tamping, dreich), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles.lesson:21 # text = Words people use: "fixin' to" (southern USA) means about to; "tamping" (Wales) means furious; "dreich" (Scotland) means grey and drizzly; "servo" (Australia) means a petrol station; "bday" is short for birthday. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:nsubj 3 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 fixin fixin VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 7 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 11 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 14 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 15 about about ADP IN _ 14 ccomp _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 15 fixed _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 tamping tamping NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 24 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 25 furious furious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 dreich dreich NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 31 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 33 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 34 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:xcomp 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 drizzly drizzly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ _ 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 38 " " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 39 servo servo NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 41 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 42 punct _ _ 42 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 appos _ _ 43 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 42 punct _ _ 44 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 parataxis _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 petrol petrol NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 station station NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 48 ; ; PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 49 " " PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ _ 50 bday bday NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nsubj _ _ 51 " " PUNCT '' _ 50 punct _ _ 52 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 cop _ _ 53 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 parataxis _ _ 54 for for ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 55 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obl _ _ 56 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | people | Words | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent word=Theme clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **fixin** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | southern USA | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | present | tamping | | | | | furious *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mean** | present | dreich | grey | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grey=Topic | | 6 | **mean** | present | servo | a petrol station | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent station=Topic | | 7 | **is** | present | bday | | | | | for birthday; short *property* | tree rules | 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:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles.lesson:21`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles/19/) - next →: [Olympiad: logic traps and if-then ★★★, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/193-olympiad-logic-traps-and-if-then/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles/)