--- title: In a language olympiad you often get a short real text - a postcard,… — Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: In a language olympiad you often get a short real text - a postcard, a sign, a menu, a recipe - and must work out what it says without a dictionary, like a code-breaker. Who acts: you, text. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★» of the french course of Mova's primary --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/39-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/) / [Olympiad: decoding a short French text…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/39-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text/) / 0 # Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★, sentence 0 In a language olympiad you often get a short real text - a postcard, a sign, a menu, a recipe - and must work out what it says without a dictionary, like a code-breaker. **Who acts:** you, text · **What happens:** get, work out, say · **To what, where:** short real text, language olympiad · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★» 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 (you, text), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:039-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text.lesson:0 # text = In a language olympiad you often get a short real text - a postcard, a sign, a menu, a recipe - and must work out what it says without a dictionary, like a code-breaker. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 039-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text.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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 olympiad olympiad NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 often often ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 text text NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 12 - - PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 postcard postcard NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 menu menu NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 recipe recipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 24 - - PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 28 out out ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 31 obj _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 32 without without ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 dictionary dictionary NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 like like ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 code code NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ _ 40 breaker breaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:conj 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | you | a short real text | | a language olympiad | | often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer text=Stimulus | | 2 | **work out** | must | you *not said here* | | | | | like a code breaker | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | text | | | | | without a dictionary | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | 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:french:039-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles/17/) - next →: [Olympiad: decoding a short French text…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/39-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/39-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text/)