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title: The last olympiad puzzles of the course don't ask "true or false?" b… — Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: The last olympiad puzzles of the course don't ask "true or false?" but the harder question: how could you find out, and which result would settle it? Who acts: last olympiad puzzles, you, result, course. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★» of the myths course of Mova's p
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# Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★, sentence 0

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The last olympiad puzzles of the course don't ask "true or false?" but the harder question: how could you find out, and which result would settle it?

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**Who acts:** last olympiad puzzles, you, result, course · **What happens:** not ask, find out, settle, puzzle · **To what, where:** true, question

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★» 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 (last olympiad puzzles, you, result, course), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:037-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it.lesson:0
# text = The last olympiad puzzles of the course don't ask "true or false?" but the harder question: how could you find out, and which result would settle it?
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 037-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	olympiad	olympiad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:xcomp
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	30	det	_	_
30	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | present · do-support | the last olympiad puzzles of the course | true |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent true=Recipient |
| 2 | **find out** | could | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **settle** | would | which result | question |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=Location |
| 4 | **puzzle** |  | the course |  |  |  |  |  | nom puzzle «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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:myths:037-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it.lesson:0`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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