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title: At the Olympics Taiwan's teams compete as «Chinese Taipei» with a sp… — Taiwan, China and the word «tensions» · tree and pragmatics
description: At the Olympics Taiwan's teams compete as «Chinese Taipei» with a special flag, a compromise that lets its athletes take part. Who acts: teams, compromise, athletes. A sentence of the lesson «Taiwan, China and the word «tensions»» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Taiwan, China and the word «tensions», sentence 17

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At the Olympics Taiwan's teams compete as «Chinese Taipei» with a special flag, a compromise that lets its athletes take part.

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**Who acts:** teams, compromise, athletes · **What happens:** compete, let, take · **To what, where:** Olympics, part

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Taiwan, China and the word «tensions»» of the politics 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 (teams, compromise, athletes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:029-taiwan-china-and-the-word-tensions.lesson:17
# text = At the Olympics Taiwan's teams compete as «Chinese Taipei» with a special flag, a compromise that lets its athletes take part.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 029-taiwan-china-and-the-word-tensions.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Olympics	Olympics	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	teams	team	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	compete	compete	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Taipei	Taipei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	compromise	compromise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	athletes	athlete	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
25	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **compete** | present | Taiwan's teams |  |  | the Olympics |  | as Chinese Taipei; with a special flag | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with flag=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **let** | present | a compromise |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | compromise's athletes | part |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=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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**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:politics:029-taiwan-china-and-the-word-tensions.lesson:17`.

**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): 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/).

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