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# Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages, sentence 15

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In Vor, ral is red, sel is blue and ralsel is purple, but no example shows selral, so the data does not say what it means.

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**Who acts:** ral, sel, ralsel, example, data · **What happens:** be, show, not say, mean · **To what, where:** Vor, selral · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (ral, sel, ralsel, example), 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:15
# text = In Vor, ral is red, sel is blue and ralsel is purple, but no example shows selral, so the data does not say what it means.
# 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	Vor	Vor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	ral	ral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	sel	sel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	ralsel	ralsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	selral	selral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	data	data	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	30	obj	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
31	.	.	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 | **is** | present | ral |  |  | Vor |  | red *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | sel |  |  |  |  | blue *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | ralsel |  |  |  |  | purple *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **show** | present | no example | selral |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent selral=Recipient |
| 5 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | the data |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **mean** | present | ralsel |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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:15`.

**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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