---
title: Some puzzles have two right halves: Everest and Mauna Kea can both b… — Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Some puzzles have two right halves: Everest and Mauna Kea can both be "the tallest" until you ask, measured from where? Who acts: puzzles, Everest, you. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true/4/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true/) / 4

# Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★, sentence 4

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Some puzzles have two right halves: Everest and Mauna Kea can both be "the tallest" until you ask, measured from where?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** puzzles, Everest, you · **What happens:** have, be, ask, measure · **To what, where:** two right halves · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (puzzles, Everest, you), 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:4
# text = Some puzzles have two right halves: Everest and Mauna Kea can both be "the tallest" until you ask, measured from where?
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	halves	half	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Everest	Everest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
10	Mauna	Mauna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	Kea	Kea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
13	both	both	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:cc:preconj|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tallest	tall	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	parataxis	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
19	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	measured	measure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	parataxis	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	obl	_	_
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | some puzzles | two right halves |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | can | Everest and Mauna |  |  |  |  | both, tall *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **measure** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:myths:036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.lesson:4`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true/3/)
- next →: [Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true/5/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true/)

