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title: Some puzzles hide a trap in the place: at the North Pole every way y… — Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Some puzzles hide a trap in the place: at the North Pole every way you can walk is south, so a house there could have all four walls facing south, and the bear at the window would be a white polar bear. Who acts: puzzles, you, way, house. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: maps, directions and cloc
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# Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★, sentence 2

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Some puzzles hide a trap in the place: at the North Pole every way you can walk is south, so a house there could have all four walls facing south, and the bear at the window would be a white polar bear.

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**Who acts:** puzzles, you, way, house, four walls, bear · **What happens:** hide, walk, be, have, face · **To what, where:** trap, place, way, four walls, white polar bear

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★» of the geography 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 (puzzles, you, way, house), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:063-olympiad-maps-directions-and-clocks.lesson:2
# text = Some puzzles hide a trap in the place: at the North Pole every way you can walk is south, so a house there could have all four walls facing south, and the bear at the window would be a white polar bear.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 063-olympiad-maps-directions-and-clocks.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	south	south	ADV	RB	_	13	parataxis	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot
29	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
31	facing	face	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	_
32	south	south	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
41	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	cop	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
43	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
44	polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **hide** | present | some puzzles | a trap |  | the place |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent trap=Patient in place=Location |
| 2 | **walk** | can | you | every way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | present | every way |  |  |  |  | south *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | could | a house | all four walls |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Patient |
| 5 | **face** | gerund | all four walls *not said here* |  |  |  |  | south *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | would | the bear at the window | a white polar bear |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:geography:063-olympiad-maps-directions-and-clocks.lesson:2`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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