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description: In Welsh, some words change their first sound after certain words; after "fy" (my), c becomes ngh, so cath (cat) becomes fy nghath (my cat). Who acts: words, c, cath. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: real languages and codes» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Olympiad: real languages and codes, sentence 14

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In Welsh, some words change their first sound after certain words; after "fy" (my), c becomes ngh, so cath (cat) becomes fy nghath (my cat).

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**Who acts:** words, c, cath · **What happens:** change, become · **To what, where:** first sound, Welsh, fy nghath

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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 (words, c, cath), 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:14
# text = In Welsh, some words change their first sound after certain words; after "fy" (my), c becomes ngh, so cath (cat) becomes fy nghath (my cat).
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Welsh	Welsh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	fy	fy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
22	c	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
24	ngh	ngh	ADV	RB	_	23	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
27	cath	cath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
29	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
31	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
32	fy	fy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:amod
33	nghath	nghath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	xcomp	_	_
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
37	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	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 | **change** | present | some words | syllables's first sound |  | Welsh | after certain words |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient |
| 2 | **become** | present | c |  |  |  | after my fy |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **become** | present | cath | fy nghath |  |  |  |  | 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:14`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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