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description: Always check your rule against EVERY example before you answer, and if the data does not tell you something, the honest answer is "the data does not say". Who acts: you, data, honest answer, your. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages» of the english course of
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# Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages, sentence 4

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Always check your rule against EVERY example before you answer, and if the data does not tell you something, the honest answer is "the data does not say".

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**Who acts:** you, data, honest answer, your · **What happens:** check, answer, not tell, not be, rule · **To what, where:** rule, something, you · **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 (you, data, honest answer, your), 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:4
# text = Always check your rule against EVERY example before you answer, and if the data does not tell you something, the honest answer is "the data does not say".
# 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	Always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
2	check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	against	against	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	EVERY	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	answer	answer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	data	data	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:outer	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	data	data	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **check** | imperative | you *not said here* | your rule |  |  |  | against every example; always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | the data | something | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the honest answer |  |  |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **rule** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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