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title: Words people use: "sus" means suspicious; "mid" means just average,… — Olympiad: logic traps and if-then ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Words people use: "sus" means suspicious; "mid" means just average, not good; "ken" (Scotland) means know; "gadgie" (North East England) means a man, a bloke; "yinz" (Pittsburgh, USA) means you all. Who acts: people, sus, mid, gadgie. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: logic traps and if-then ★★★» 
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# Olympiad: logic traps and if-then ★★★, sentence 21

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Words people use: "sus" means suspicious; "mid" means just average, not good; "ken" (Scotland) means know; "gadgie" (North East England) means a man, a bloke; "yinz" (Pittsburgh, USA) means you all.

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**Who acts:** people, sus, mid, gadgie, Pittsburgh · **What happens:** use, mean, know · **To what, where:** Words, average, man, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: logic traps and if-then ★★★» of the world 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 (people, sus, mid, gadgie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:193-olympiad-logic-traps-and-if-then.lesson:21
# text = Words people use: "sus" means suspicious; "mid" means just average, not good; "ken" (Scotland) means know; "gadgie" (North East England) means a man, a bloke; "yinz" (Pittsburgh, USA) means you all.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 193-olympiad-logic-traps-and-if-then.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	mid	mid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	ken	ken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
27	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
28	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
31	gadgie	gadgie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
33	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
34	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	amod	_	_
35	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
36	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	_
37	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct
38	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:conj
44	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	_
46	yinz	yinz	NOUN	NN	_	40	appos	_	_
47	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	46	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct
48	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	49	punct	_	_
49	Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	appos	_	_
52	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	49	punct	_	_
53	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	ccomp	_	_
54	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	_
55	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	54	nmod:unmarked	_	_
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	38	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 | **use** | present | people | Words |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent word=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **mean** | present | sus |  |  |  |  | suspicious *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | present | mid | average |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent average=Topic |
| 4 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **know** *not said to happen* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **mean** | present | gadgie | a man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **mean** | present | Pittsburgh | you |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

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