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title: Use only what the text gives you: if it says Lily rides her bike on… — Olympiad: tricky comprehension · tree and pragmatics
description: Use only what the text gives you: if it says Lily rides her bike on Mondays, you cannot claim she rides it every day, and if the text does not explain why something happened, "the text does not say" can be the right answer. Who acts: you, text, clue, Lily. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tricky 
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# Olympiad: tricky comprehension, sentence 4

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Use only what the text gives you: if it says Lily rides her bike on Mondays, you cannot claim she rides it every day, and if the text does not explain why something happened, "the text does not say" can be the right answer.

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**Who acts:** you, text, clue, Lily, something · **What happens:** use, give, say, ride, not claim, not explain · **To what, where:** you, bike, clue, right answer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» 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 (you, text, clue, Lily), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.lesson:4
# text = Use only what the text gives you: if it says Lily rides her bike on Mondays, you cannot claim she rides it every day, and if the text does not explain why something happened, "the text does not say" can be the right answer.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:parataxis
12	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	rides	ride	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Mondays	Monday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	claim	claim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	rides	ride	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
36	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
37	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	38	nsubj	_	_
38	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	ccomp	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
43	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
45	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
46	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	45	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=51:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
47	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
48	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	cop	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	parataxis	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present | the text |  | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | clue |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **ride** | present | Lily | Lily's bike |  |  | monday |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bike=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **claim** *speech: other* | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **ride** | present | Lily | clue |  |  | day |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location |
| 7 | **not** **explain** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | the text |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **happen** | past | something |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · do-support | the text |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 10 | **is a** | can |  | the right answer |  |  |  |  | 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:060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.lesson:4`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-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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