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title: This olympiad lesson turns the course into puzzles: count the votes,… — Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decid… · tree and pragmatics
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# Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★, sentence 0

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This olympiad lesson turns the course into puzzles: count the votes, check the rule, follow the chain of who decides, and watch for one word in the question that changes everything.

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**Who acts:** olympiad lesson, chain, question · **What happens:** turn, count, check, follow, decide, watch · **To what, where:** course, puzzles, votes, rule, chain, everything

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★» 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 (olympiad lesson, chain, question), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:041-olympiad-fair-votes-close-counts-and-who-decides.lesson:0
# text = This olympiad lesson turns the course into puzzles: count the votes, check the rule, follow the chain of who decides, and watch for one word in the question that changes everything.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 041-olympiad-fair-votes-close-counts-and-who-decides.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	olympiad	olympiad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	votes	vote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	decides	decide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	34	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **turn** | present | this olympiad lesson | the course |  | puzzles |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent course=Theme into puzzle=Trajectory |
| 2 | **count** | infinitive |  | the votes |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Theme |
| 3 | **check** | infinitive |  | the rule |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |
| 4 | **follow** | infinitive |  | the chain |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Theme |
| 5 | **decide** | present | the chain |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **watch** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for one word in the question | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for word=Theme |
| 7 | **change** | present | the question | everything |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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.

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