--- title: The Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina, Italy, were in February 20… — The Olympics and Paralympics · tree and pragmatics description: The Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina, Italy, were in February 2026; skaters balance using the inner ear, eyes and strong leg and core muscles. Who acts: Winter Olympics, skaters. 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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 (Winter Olympics, skaters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:062-the-olympics-and-paralympics.lesson:15 # text = The Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina, Italy, were in February 2026; skaters balance using the inner ear, eyes and strong leg and core muscles. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 062-the-olympics-and-paralympics.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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Winter Winter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 Olympics Olympics PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Milan Milan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 Cortina Cortina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Italy Italy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 11 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 February February PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 2026 2026 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nmod:unmarked _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 skaters skater NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 balance balance VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 using use VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 acl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 inner inner ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 core core NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | the Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina and Italy | | | | february | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **balance** | present | skaters | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **use** | gerund | | the inner ear and eyes and strong leg and core muscles | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | 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. 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