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title: In Tano, ne goes just before the verb to mean "not": Ti ama = I like… — Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up langua… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Tano, ne goes just before the verb to mean "not": Ti ama = I like, Ti ne ama = I don't like, Ka ama = you like. Who acts: ne, I, you. 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 prag
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# Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages, sentence 13

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In Tano, ne goes just before the verb to mean "not": Ti ama = I like, Ti ne ama = I don't like, Ka ama = you like.

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**Who acts:** ne, I, you · **What happens:** go, mean, like, not like · **To what, where:** Ti, Tano, Ka ama

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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 (ne, I, you), 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:13
# text = In Tano, ne goes just before the verb to mean "not": Ti ama = I like, Ti ne ama = I don't like, Ka ama = you like.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Tano	Tano	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	ne	ne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	verb	verb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	obj	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Ti	ti	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
17	ama	ama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:unmarked	_	_
18	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	Ti	ti	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	ne	ne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	ama	ama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
25	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	ama	ama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** | present | ne | Ti  ama |  | Tano | before the verb |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in tano=Location |
| 2 | **mean** | to-infinitive | ne *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent not=Topic |
| 3 | **like** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **not** **like** | present · do-support | I | Ka ama |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ama=Theme |
| 5 | **like** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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