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title: Many puzzles are odd-one-out: three phrases share one plain meaning… — Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Many puzzles are odd-one-out: three phrases share one plain meaning and the fourth does not, and you must name it and say why. Who acts: Many puzzles, three phrases, fourth, you. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 1

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Many puzzles are odd-one-out: three phrases share one plain meaning and the fourth does not, and you must name it and say why.

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**Who acts:** Many puzzles, three phrases, fourth, you · **What happens:** be, share, not do, name, say · **To what, where:** odd one out, one plain meaning, phrase · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★» of the euphemisms 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 (Many puzzles, three phrases, fourth, 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:1
# text = Many puzzles are odd-one-out: three phrases share one plain meaning and the fourth does not, and you must name it and say why.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
8	out	out	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	phrases	phrase	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
15	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fourth	fourth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	name	name	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
29	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 a** | present | Many puzzles | odd one out |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **share** | infinitive | three phrases | one plain meaning |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **do** | present | the fourth |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **name** | must | you | phrase |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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:euphemisms:041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.lesson:1`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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