--- title: In Selk, the describing word comes first: ki (eye) + ota (water) = k… — Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up langua… · tree and pragmatics description: In Selk, the describing word comes first: ki (eye) + ota (water) = kiota (tears, "eye-water"); with fen (fire) and mor (mountain), a fire-mountain, a volcano, is fenmor. Who acts: describing word, fen. 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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 (describing word, fen), 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:10 # text = In Selk, the describing word comes first: ki (eye) + ota (water) = kiota (tears, "eye-water"); with fen (fire) and mor (mountain), a fire-mountain, a volcano, is fenmor. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Selk Selk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 describing describe VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 amod _ _ 6 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 7 advmod _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 10 ki ki NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 12 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 13 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 14 + + SYM SYM _ 15 cc _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:case 15 ota ota NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nmod 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 17 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 19 = = SYM SYM _ 20 punct _ _ 20 kiota kiota NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 22 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 appos _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 25 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 27 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 fen fen NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 34 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 35 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 mor mor NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 38 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 39 punct _ _ 39 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:appos 40 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 39 punct _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 43 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 44 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 43 punct _ _ 45 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 volcano volcano NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:conj 49 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 50 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 cop _ _ 51 fenmor fenmor NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **describe** | gerund | | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **come** | present | the describing word | ki + ota and kiota eye water | | Selk | | first *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in selk=Location | | 3 | **is a** | present | fen and mor and a fire mountain | fenmor | | | | | 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:english:058-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages.lesson:10`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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