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description: Codes are puzzles with a secret rule: shift every letter one step along the alphabet (IFMMP is HELLO), or swap letters for numbers (A = 1, B = 2 and so on). Who acts: Codes. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: real languages and codes» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Olympiad: real languages and codes, sentence 3

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Codes are puzzles with a secret rule: shift every letter one step along the alphabet (IFMMP is HELLO), or swap letters for numbers (A = 1, B = 2 and so on).

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**Who acts:** Codes · **What happens:** be, shift · **To what, where:** puzzles, letter, HELLO

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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 (Codes), 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:3
# text = Codes are puzzles with a secret rule: shift every letter one step along the alphabet (IFMMP is HELLO), or swap letters for numbers (A = 1, B = 2 and so on).
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Codes	code	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	shift	shift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det
11	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:compound
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	_
13	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	along	along	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	alphabet	alphabet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
18	IFMMP	IFMMP	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	HELLO	hello	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	swap	swap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
29	A	A	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	31	case	_	_
31	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	B	B	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
34	=	=	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	flat	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	nmod	_	_
39	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	38	punct	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 a** | present | Codes | puzzles |  |  |  | with a secret rule | tree rules |
| 2 | **shift** | infinitive |  | every letter |  |  |  | along the alphabet; swap letters for numbers  B and A = 1 *obl* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient NP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: agent=Causer letter=Patient step=Extent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | HELLO |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:3`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-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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