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title: Ben is taller than Cal, but Cal is taller than Dee", the order from… — Olympiad: tricky comprehension · tree and pragmatics
description: Ben is taller than Cal, but Cal is taller than Dee", the order from tallest is Amy, Ben, Cal, Dee, so Dee is the shortest. Who acts: Ben, Cal, Dee. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Olympiad: tricky comprehension, sentence 6

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Ben is taller than Cal, but Cal is taller than Dee", the order from tallest is Amy, Ben, Cal, Dee, so Dee is the shortest.

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**Who acts:** Ben, Cal, Dee · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Amy

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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 (Ben, Cal, Dee), 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:6
# text = Ben is taller than Cal, but Cal is taller than Dee", the order from tallest is Amy, Ben, Cal, Dee, so Dee is the shortest.
# 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 ×1
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Cal	Cal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	Cal	Cal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Dee	Dee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	tallest	tall	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:amod
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	Amy	Amy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Cal	Cal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Dee	Dee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
29	Dee	Dee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	shortest	short	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	parataxis	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Ben |  |  |  |  | than Cal; tall *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Cal |  |  |  |  | than Dee; tall *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | Amy and Ben and Cal and Dee |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Dee |  |  |  |  | short *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:060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.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. **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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