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title: The winning habit is the same as in maths: break the word at the hyp… — Olympiad: number-word puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: The winning habit is the same as in maths: break the word at the hyphens, decide which parts multiply and which add, and never guess when you can count. Who acts: winning habit, parts, you. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: number-word puzzles ★★★» of the french course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Olympiad: number-word puzzles ★★★, sentence 4

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The winning habit is the same as in maths: break the word at the hyphens, decide which parts multiply and which add, and never guess when you can count.

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**Who acts:** winning habit, parts, you · **What happens:** be, break, decide, multiply, add, not guess · **To what, where:** word, hyphens · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: number-word puzzles ★★★» of the french 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 (winning habit, parts, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:037-olympiad-number-word-puzzles.lesson:4
# text = The winning habit is the same as in maths: break the word at the hyphens, decide which parts multiply and which add, and never guess when you can count.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 037-olympiad-number-word-puzzles.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	winning	winning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	maths	math	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hyphens	hyphen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	decide	decide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
19	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	20	det	_	_
20	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	multiply	multiply	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	guess	guess	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the winning habit |  |  |  |  | as maths; same *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **break** | infinitive |  | the word |  | the hyphens |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Patient |
| 3 | **decide** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **multiply** | present | which parts |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **add** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **guess** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **count** | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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): 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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