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title: Olympiad puzzles hand you a chain in a muddle: find the first push,… — Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Olympiad puzzles hand you a chain in a muddle: find the first push, then follow each «so...» to the end. Who acts: Olympiad puzzles. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★, sentence 9

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Olympiad puzzles hand you a chain in a muddle: find the first push, then follow each «so...» to the end.

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**Who acts:** Olympiad puzzles · **What happens:** hand, find, follow · **To what, where:** chain, you, muddle, first push, », end

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★» of the history 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 (Olympiad puzzles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:086-olympiad-cause-and-effect-chains.lesson:9
# text = Olympiad puzzles hand you a chain in a muddle: find the first push, then follow each «so...» to the end.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 086-olympiad-cause-and-effect-chains.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Olympiad	olympiad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hand	hand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	muddle	muddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
11	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
22	»	»	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **hand** | present | Olympiad puzzles | a chain | you | a muddle |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination chain=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | infinitive |  | the first push |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent push=Topic |
| 3 | **follow** | infinitive |  | » |  |  | to the end; then |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent to end=Trajectory |

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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:history:086-olympiad-cause-and-effect-chains.lesson:9`.

**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, R7-rel-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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