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title: A "which country am I?" chain gives clues one by one, and each clue… — Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: A "which country am I?" chain gives clues one by one, and each clue crosses some countries off the list until only one is left, just like a detective ruling out suspects. Who acts: I, country chain, clue, detective. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★» of the geography course
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# Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★, sentence 0

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A "which country am I?" chain gives clues one by one, and each clue crosses some countries off the list until only one is left, just like a detective ruling out suspects.

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**Who acts:** I, country chain, clue, detective · **What happens:** be, give, cross, leave, rule out · **To what, where:** country, clues, countries, one, suspects

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★» 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 (I, country chain, clue, detective), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:064-olympiad-which-country-am-i.lesson:0
# text = A "which country am I?" chain gives clues one by one, and each clue crosses some countries off the list until only one is left, just like a detective ruling out suspects.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 064-olympiad-which-country-am-i.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	A	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
5	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	clues	clue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	clue	clue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	crosses	cross	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod
25	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	just	just	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	like	like	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	detective	detective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
35	ruling	rule	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	acl	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	suspects	suspect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | I | which country |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present | a country chain | clues |  |  |  | one by one *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Theme |
| 3 | **cross** | present | each clue | some countries |  |  |  | off the list; like a detective | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient |
| 4 | **leave** | present · passive |  | one |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **rule out** | gerund | a detective *not said here* | suspects |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suspect=Theme |

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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, R7-rel-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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