--- title: In Swahili, many words for people take m- in the singular and wa- in… — Olympiad: real languages and codes · tree and pragmatics description: In Swahili, many words for people take m- in the singular and wa- in the plural: mtoto and watoto, mtu and watu, mpishi (cook) and wapishi (cooks). Who acts: many words. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many 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:6 # text = In Swahili, many words for people take m- in the singular and wa- in the plural: mtoto and watoto, mtu and watu, mpishi (cook) and wapishi (cooks). # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Swahili Swahili PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 m M NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 singular singular NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 wa wa NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 19 plural plural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 21 mtoto mtoto NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 dep _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 watoto watoto X FW Foreign=Yes 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 mtu mtu NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 watu watu NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 mpishi mpishi NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 30 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 31 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 wapishi wapishi NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 35 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 36 cooks cook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 appos _ _ 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present | many words for people | m | | Swahili | | in the singular and wa | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent m=Value in swahili=Location | 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. **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:6`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: real languages and codes, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/59-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes/5/) - next →: [Olympiad: real languages and codes, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/59-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/59-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes/)