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title: In Pirr, bo (big) and lo (small) go in front of the noun: bopir = bi… — Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up langua… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Pirr, bo (big) and lo (small) go in front of the noun: bopir = big bird, lopir = small bird, bomuk = big fish. Who acts: bo. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages, sentence 12

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In Pirr, bo (big) and lo (small) go in front of the noun: bopir = big bird, lopir = small bird, bomuk = big fish.

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**Who acts:** bo · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** Pirr

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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 (bo), 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:12
# text = In Pirr, bo (big) and lo (small) go in front of the noun: bopir = big bird, lopir = small bird, bomuk = big fish.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Pirr	Pirr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	bo	bo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	lo	lo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	bopir	bopir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	lopir	lopir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
26	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	bomuk	bomuk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
31	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **go** | infinitive | bo and lo |  |  | Pirr |  | in front of the noun  big fish | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in pirr=Location |

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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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**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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