--- title: The trick is to start from the sharpest clue: "my capital was chosen… — Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: The trick is to start from the sharpest clue: "my capital was chosen in 1923 and my biggest city sits on two continents" points straight at Turkey, while "I am in Asia" alone leaves dozens. Who acts: trick, biggest city, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trick, biggest city, I), 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:1 # text = The trick is to start from the sharpest clue: "my capital was chosen in 1923 and my biggest city sits on two continents" points straight at Turkey, while "I am in Asia" alone leaves dozens. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 sharpest sharp ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 amod _ _ 9 clue clue NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj 10 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 chosen choose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 csubj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 1923 1923 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 amod _ _ 21 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 continents continent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 27 points point VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 28 straight straight ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Turkey Turkey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 32 while while SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:nsubj 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 39 alone alone ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 leaves leaf VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 41 dozens dozen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the trick | | | the sharpest clue | | start *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **choose** *in a quote* | past · passive | | my capital | | 1923 | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **sit** *in a quote* | present | my biggest city | | | two continents | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on continent=Location | | 4 | **point** | present | | | | Turkey | | straight *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I | | | Asia | | | tree rules | | 6 | **leaf** | present | | dozens | | | | alone *property* | tree rules | 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:geography:064-olympiad-which-country-am-i.lesson:1`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: which country am I? ★★★, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/0/) - next →: [Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/)