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title: In Ilo, -ko turns a doing word into the person who does it: dami (to… — Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up langua… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Ilo, -ko turns a doing word into the person who does it: dami (to run), damiko (runner), seri (to sing), seriko (singer). Who acts: ko, person. 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 an
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# Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages, sentence 14

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In Ilo, -ko turns a doing word into the person who does it: dami (to run), damiko (runner), seri (to sing), seriko (singer).

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**Who acts:** ko, person · **What happens:** turn, do, run, sing · **To what, where:** doing word, word

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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 (ko, person), 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:14
# text = In Ilo, -ko turns a doing word into the person who does it: dami (to run), damiko (runner), seri (to sing), seriko (singer).
# 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Ilo	Ilo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
5	ko	ko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	dami	dami	NOUN	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	conj	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	damiko	damiko	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
25	runner	runner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	seri	seri	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	seriko	seriko	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
35	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
36	singer	singer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:appos
37	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | ko | a doing word and dami and damiko and seri and seriko |  |  |  | into the person; in Ilo | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent word=Patient in ilo=Topic into person=Recipient |
| 2 | **do** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | present | the person | word |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 4 | **run** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 ×3, 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.

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