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title: This olympiad mixes the whole course into puzzles: tones that change… — Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: This olympiad mixes the whole course into puzzles: tones that change words, tones that quietly change inside phrases, numbers built like Lego, days that have numbers, and twelve zodiac animals going round and round. Who acts: olympiad, tones, days, twelve zodiac animals. A sentence of the lesson «Ol
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# Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★, sentence 0

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This olympiad mixes the whole course into puzzles: tones that change words, tones that quietly change inside phrases, numbers built like Lego, days that have numbers, and twelve zodiac animals going round and round.

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**Who acts:** olympiad, tones, days, twelve zodiac animals · **What happens:** mix, change, build, have, go · **To what, where:** whole course, words, phrases, numbers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★» of the chinese street 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 (olympiad, tones, days, twelve zodiac animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:031-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles.lesson:0
# text = This olympiad mixes the whole course into puzzles: tones that change words, tones that quietly change inside phrases, numbers built like Lego, days that have numbers, and twelve zodiac animals going round and round.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 031-olympiad-tone-and-number-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): no change
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	olympiad	olympiad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	mixes	mix	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	phrases	phrase	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
23	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Lego	Lego	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
34	zodiac	zodiac	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
36	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	acl	_	_
37	round	round	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	round	round	ADV	RB	_	37	conj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mix** | present | this olympiad | the whole course |  |  |  | into puzzles | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent course=Patient into puzzle=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **change** | present | tones and tones and numbers and twelve zodiac animals | words |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 3 | **change** | present | tones |  |  | phrases |  | quietly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **build** | participle |  | numbers *not said here* |  |  |  | like Lego | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **have** | present | days | numbers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient |
| 6 | **go** | gerund | twelve zodiac animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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**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:chinese-street:031-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles.lesson:0`.

**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): no change. **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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