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title: In Indonesian, doubling a noun makes it plural: buku (book), buku-bu… — Olympiad: real languages and codes · tree and pragmatics
description: In Indonesian, doubling a noun makes it plural: buku (book), buku-buku (books); rumah (house), rumah-rumah (houses). Who acts: doubling. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: real languages and codes» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Olympiad: real languages and codes, sentence 5

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In Indonesian, doubling a noun makes it plural: buku (book), buku-buku (books); rumah (house), rumah-rumah (houses).

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**Who acts:** doubling · **What happens:** double, make · **To what, where:** noun, Indonesian

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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 (doubling), 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:5
# text = In Indonesian, doubling a noun makes it plural: buku (book), buku-buku (books); rumah (house), rumah-rumah (houses).
# 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
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Indonesian	Indonesian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	doubling	double	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	buku	buku	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	obj	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
13	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	buku	buku	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	conj	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
18	buku	buku	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	conj	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
20	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	appos	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
23	rumah	rumah	NOUN	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	obj	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	rumah	rumah	NOUN	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	conj	_	_
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	_
30	rumah	rumah	NOUN	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	conj	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
32	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	appos	_	_
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **double** | gerund |  | a noun |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent noun=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present | doubling | noun |  | Indonesian |  | plural *property* | 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:5`.

**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. **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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