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title: Picture the quiz card: "Amy says camels keep water in their humps, B… — Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture the quiz card: "Amy says camels keep water in their humps, Ben says bats are blind, Cara says owls can turn their heads three-quarters of a circle." Only Cara is right, and you can prove the other two wrong. Who acts: you, Amy, camels, Ben. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: which claim is 
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# Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★, sentence 2

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Picture the quiz card: "Amy says camels keep water in their humps, Ben says bats are blind, Cara says owls can turn their heads three-quarters of a circle." Only Cara is right, and you can prove the other two wrong.

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**Who acts:** you, Amy, camels, Ben, bats, Cara · **What happens:** picture, say, keep, be, turn, prove · **To what, where:** quiz card, water, humps, heads, other two · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★» of the myths 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 (you, Amy, camels, Ben), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.lesson:2
# text = Picture the quiz card: "Amy says camels keep water in their humps, Ben says bats are blind, Cara says owls can turn their heads three-quarters of a circle." Only Cara is right, and you can prove the other two wrong.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	quiz	quiz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Amy	Amy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	humps	hump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
18	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	Cara	Cara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
24	owls	owl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
31	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
37	Only	only	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	38	advmod	_	_
38	Cara	Cara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
40	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	conj	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	obj	_	_
49	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	xcomp	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | the quiz card |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent card=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Amy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | camels | water |  | camels's humps |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in hump=Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Ben |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | bats |  |  |  |  | blind *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Cara |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **turn** *in a quote* | can | owls | camels's heads |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent head=Theme quarter=Result |
| 8 | **is** | present | Cara |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **prove** | can | you | the other two |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme |

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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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**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): 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.

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