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description: Some questions ask you to put events in order, some to count, some to say how big or bad a thing really is; turn each phrase into plain words first, then solve. Who acts: questions, some. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary sc
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# Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, sentence 2

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Some questions ask you to put events in order, some to count, some to say how big or bad a thing really is; turn each phrase into plain words first, then solve.

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**Who acts:** questions, some · **What happens:** ask, put, count, say, be, turn · **To what, where:** you, events, order, some, phrase, plain words · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★» 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 (questions, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:042-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines.lesson:2
# text = Some questions ask you to put events in order, some to count, some to say how big or bad a thing really is; turn each phrase into plain words first, then solve.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 042-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines.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	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj
24	really	really	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
28	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
33	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	advmod	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
36	solve	solve	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
37	.	.	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | some questions |  | you |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **put** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | some questions *not said here* | events |  | order |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent event=Theme in order=Destination |
| 3 | **count** | to-infinitive | some | some |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **turn** | infinitive | some *not said here* | each phrase |  | plain words |  | first *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent phrase=Theme into word=Trajectory |
| 8 | **solve** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how 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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**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.

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