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title: Films, cartoons and games are full of them, and spotting them is a f… — Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Films, cartoons and games are full of them, and spotting them is a favourite olympiad puzzle. Who acts: Films, spotting. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★, sentence 1

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Films, cartoons and games are full of them, and spotting them is a favourite olympiad puzzle.

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**Who acts:** Films, spotting · **What happens:** be, spot · **To what, where:** Films, favourite olympiad puzzle

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» 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 (Films, spotting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:087-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism.lesson:1
# text = Films, cartoons and games are full of them, and spotting them is a favourite olympiad puzzle.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 087-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism.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): R1-cc-next ×2
1	Films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc
5	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
12	spotting	spot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	csubj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	olympiad	olympiad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Films and cartoons and games |  |  |  |  | of games *= game*; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spot** | gerund |  | Films *= film* |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination |
| 3 | **is a** | present | spotting | a favourite olympiad puzzle |  |  |  |  | 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:history:087-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism.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): R1-cc-next ×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/).

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