--- title: Some puzzles count: how many people in a story are still alive, how… — Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Some puzzles count: how many people in a story are still alive, how many really drank, and only the plain meanings are counted, never a hyperbole like "a million times". Who acts: puzzles, many. 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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 (puzzles, many), 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:3 # text = Some puzzles count: how many people in a story are still alive, how many really drank, and only the plain meanings are counted, never a hyperbole like "a million times". # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 2 puzzles puzzle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound 3 count count VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 5 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 6 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 still still ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 16 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 nsubj _ _ 17 really really ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 drank drink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 21 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 meanings meaning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 counted count VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 hyperbole hyperbole NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | present | some puzzles | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | present | some puzzles *not said here* | | | | still | alive *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **drink** | past | many | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **count** | present · passive | | the plain meanings | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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:3`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. 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