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description: In Lumi, -sa makes a plural, -i means "my" and -ou means "your", added in that order: tak (cat), taki (my cat), takou (your cat), taksa (cats), taksai (my cats). Who acts: sa, i. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages» of the english course of Mova's primary sc
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# Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages, sentence 11

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In Lumi, -sa makes a plural, -i means "my" and -ou means "your", added in that order: tak (cat), taki (my cat), takou (your cat), taksa (cats), taksai (my cats).

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**Who acts:** sa, i · **What happens:** make, mean, add · **To what, where:** plural, Lumi, my, order

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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 (sa, i), 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:11
# text = In Lumi, -sa makes a plural, -i means "my" and -ou means "your", added in that order: tak (cat), taki (my cat), takou (your cat), taksa (cats), taksai (my cats).
# 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 ×6, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Lumi	Lumi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
5	sa	SA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:FW:Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur
6	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	plural	plural	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	ou	ou	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	discourse	_	_
19	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
29	tak	tak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
31	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	taki	taki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obl
35	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	37	punct	_	_
36	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
38	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	37	punct	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	takou	takou	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:FW:Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur
41	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	43	punct	_	_
42	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obj
44	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	43	punct	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	taksa	taksa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:FW:Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur
47	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	48	punct	_	_
48	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
49	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	48	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	taksai	taksai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:FW:Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur
52	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	54	punct	_	_
53	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
55	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	54	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | sa | a plural |  | Lumi |  | cats *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plural=Product |
| 2 | **mean** | present | i |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | present |  | my |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle | sa *not said here* |  |  | that order |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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:11`.

**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 ×6, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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