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title: Three clues, one happy answer: a surprise is being planned, and it i… — Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Three clues, one happy answer: a surprise is being planned, and it is kinder not to go looking for it. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★, sentence 6

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Three clues, one happy answer: a surprise is being planned, and it is kinder not to go looking for it.

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**What happens:** plan, be, not go, look · **To what, where:** surprise

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» of the adult life 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.lesson:6
# text = Three clues, one happy answer: a surprise is being planned, and it is kinder not to go looking for it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	clues	clue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	kinder	kinder	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	conj	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
21	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plan** | present · passive |  | a surprise |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | kinder *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for surprise | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=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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**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:adult-life:061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.lesson:6`.

**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 ×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/).

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