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description: Hawaiian has only eight consonants (there is no r, s or t, for example), and its syllables end in vowels, so borrowed words are reshaped: "Merry Christmas" became "Mele Kalikimaka". Who acts: Hawaiian, r, syllables, Merry Christmas. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: real languages and codes» of th
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# Olympiad: real languages and codes, sentence 12

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Hawaiian has only eight consonants (there is no r, s or t, for example), and its syllables end in vowels, so borrowed words are reshaped: "Merry Christmas" became "Mele Kalikimaka".

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**Who acts:** Hawaiian, r, syllables, Merry Christmas · **What happens:** have, be, end, borrow, reshape, become · **To what, where:** eight consonants, vowels, borrowed words

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: real languages and codes» 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 (Hawaiian, r, syllables, Merry Christmas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:059-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes.lesson:12
# text = Hawaiian has only eight consonants (there is no r, s or t, for example), and its syllables end in vowels, so borrowed words are reshaped: "Merry Christmas" became "Mele Kalikimaka".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 059-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	consonants	consonant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	r	r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	s	s	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	t	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	syllables	syllable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	vowels	vowel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
28	borrowed	borrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	reshaped	reshape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
34	Merry	Merry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
37	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=39:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
39	Mele	Mele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	xcomp	_	_
40	Kalikimaka	Kalikimaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	flat	_	_
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | present | Hawaiian | eight consonants |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consonant=Patient |
| 2 | **does** | present | no r and s or t |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **end** | present | example's syllables |  |  | vowels |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **borrow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **reshape** | present · passive |  | borrowed words |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **become** | past | Merry Christmas |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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:059-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes.lesson:12`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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