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title: So Turkish gün (day) becomes günler and kız (girl) becomes kızlar; t… — Olympiad: real languages and codes · tree and pragmatics
description: So Turkish gün (day) becomes günler and kız (girl) becomes kızlar; this matching of vowels is called vowel harmony. Who acts: Turkish gün, kız. 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 
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# Olympiad: real languages and codes, sentence 8

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So Turkish gün (day) becomes günler and kız (girl) becomes kızlar; this matching of vowels is called vowel harmony.

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**Who acts:** Turkish gün, kız · **What happens:** become, call · **To what, where:** günler, kızlar, matching · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Turkish gün, kız), 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:8
# text = So Turkish gün (day) becomes günler and kız (girl) becomes kızlar; this matching of vowels is called vowel harmony.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	Turkish	Turkish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gün	gün	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	günler	günler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	kız	kız	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
12	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	kızlar	kızlar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	matching	matching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	vowels	vowel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
23	vowel	vowel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	harmony	harmony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj
25	.	.	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 | **become** | present | Turkish gün | günler |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **become** | present | kız | kızlar |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **call** | present · passive |  | this matching of vowels |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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:8`.

**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): 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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