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title: In a UKLO Breakthrough puzzle (UKLO is the UK Linguistics Olympiad,… — Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up langua… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a UKLO Breakthrough puzzle (UKLO is the UK Linguistics Olympiad, and Breakthrough is its first, easiest level), you meet a language you have never seen and work out its rules from a few examples, like a detective. Who acts: Breakthrough, you, language. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: Breakthr
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# Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages, sentence 0

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In a UKLO Breakthrough puzzle (UKLO is the UK Linguistics Olympiad, and Breakthrough is its first, easiest level), you meet a language you have never seen and work out its rules from a few examples, like a detective.

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**Who acts:** Breakthrough, you, language · **What happens:** be, meet, not see, work out, rule · **To what, where:** UK Linguistics Olympiad, UKLO Breakthrough puzzle, language, rules, few examples

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages» of the english 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 (Breakthrough, you, language), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:058-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages.lesson:0
# text = In a UKLO Breakthrough puzzle (UKLO is the UK Linguistics Olympiad, and Breakthrough is its first, easiest level), you meet a language you have never seen and work out its rules from a few examples, like a detective.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 058-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	UKLO	UKLO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	Breakthrough	breakthrough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
7	UKLO	UKLO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	Linguistics	linguistics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	compound	_	_
12	Olympiad	olympiad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	Breakthrough	breakthrough	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	parataxis	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	easiest	easy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	examples	example	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	like	like	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	detective	detective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12: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 | **is a** | present |  | the UK Linguistics Olympiad |  | a UKLO Breakthrough puzzle |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Breakthrough |  |  |  |  | easiest level *obl*; first *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **meet** | present | you | a language |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **not** **see** | present · perfect | you | a language *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus |
| 5 | **work out** | infinitive | you *not said here* | language's rules |  | a few examples like a detective |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Topic |
| 6 | **rule** |  | language |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:english:058-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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