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title: Japanese syllables almost always end in a vowel (or "n"), so borrowe… — Olympiad: real languages and codes · tree and pragmatics
description: Japanese syllables almost always end in a vowel (or "n"), so borrowed words get extra vowels: "terebi" (television), "aisukurīmu" (ice cream). Who acts: Japanese syllables, borrowed words. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: real languages and codes» of the english course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Olympiad: real languages and codes, sentence 13

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Japanese syllables almost always end in a vowel (or "n"), so borrowed words get extra vowels: "terebi" (television), "aisukurīmu" (ice cream).

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**Who acts:** Japanese syllables, borrowed words · **What happens:** end, borrow, get · **To what, where:** vowel, extra vowels

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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 (Japanese syllables, borrowed words), 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:13
# text = Japanese syllables almost always end in a vowel (or "n"), so borrowed words get extra vowels: "terebi" (television), "aisukurīmu" (ice cream).
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	syllables	syllable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	vowel	vowel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	n	n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:appos|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	borrowed	borrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
20	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	vowels	vowel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
24	terebi	terebi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	conj	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
27	television	television	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:parataxis
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
31	aisukurīmu	aisukurīmu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	dep	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
33	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
34	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19: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 | **end** | present | Japanese syllables |  |  | a vowel or n |  | always *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **borrow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get** | present | borrowed words | extra vowels |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vowel=Stimulus |

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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 ×2, 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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