--- title: In an olympiad puzzle about soft words you are a detective: first tu… — Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: In an olympiad puzzle about soft words you are a detective: first turn every soft phrase into plain words, then use the plain meanings for the next step of the puzzle. Who acts: you. 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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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.lesson:0 # text = In an olympiad puzzle about soft words you are a detective: first turn every soft phrase into plain words, then use the plain meanings for the next step of the puzzle. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.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 ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 olympiad olympiad NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 puzzle puzzle NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 detective detective NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 14 advmod _ _ 14 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl 15 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 16 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 phrase phrase NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 into into ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 23 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 meanings meaning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 puzzle puzzle NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=request | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | you | a detective | | a olympiad puzzle about soft words | | | tree rules | | 2 | **turn** | infinitive | | every soft phrase | | plain words | | first *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent phrase=Theme into word=Trajectory | | 3 | **use** | infinitive | | the plain meanings | | | then | for the next step of the puzzle | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme for step=Eventuality | | 4 | **step** | | | the puzzle | | | | | nom step «act transitive»: of=patient | 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:euphemisms:041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.lesson:0`. **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 ×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: [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/26/) - next →: [Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/)