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title: An odd-one-out puzzle always has a reason, and the reason is the rea… — Olympiad: odd one out, the right order and tall… · tree and pragmatics
description: An odd-one-out puzzle always has a reason, and the reason is the real answer: cold, flu, a viral sore throat and a bacterial chest infection look alike, but only one of them is helped by antibiotics. Who acts: odd out puzzle, reason, cold, antibiotics. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: odd one out
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# Olympiad: odd one out, the right order and tall tales ★★★, sentence 1

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An odd-one-out puzzle always has a reason, and the reason is the real answer: cold, flu, a viral sore throat and a bacterial chest infection look alike, but only one of them is helped by antibiotics.

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**Who acts:** odd out puzzle, reason, cold, antibiotics · **What happens:** have, be, look, help · **To what, where:** reason, real answer, one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: odd one out, the right order and tall tales ★★★» of the medicine 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 (odd out puzzle, reason, cold, antibiotics), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:077-olympiad-odd-one-out-order-and-tall-tales.lesson:1
# text = An odd-one-out puzzle always has a reason, and the reason is the real answer: cold, flu, a viral sore throat and a bacterial chest infection look alike, but only one of them is helped by antibiotics.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 077-olympiad-odd-one-out-order-and-tall-tales.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
2	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
6	out	out	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
9	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
21	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	flu	flu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	viral	viral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
28	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	bacterial	bacterial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	infection	infection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=28:conj
34	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
35	alike	alike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
38	only	only	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nsubj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nmod	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	helped	help	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	conj	_	_
44	by	by	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a odd out puzzle | a reason |  |  |  | always *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the reason | the real answer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive | cold and flu and a viral sore throat and a bacterial chest infection |  |  |  |  | alike *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **help** | present · passive | antibiotics | one of cold |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary |

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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:medicine:077-olympiad-odd-one-out-order-and-tall-tales.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×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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