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title: In this olympiad lesson every puzzle hides a trick: a number that so… — Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
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# Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★, sentence 0

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In this olympiad lesson every puzzle hides a trick: a number that sounds huge, a clip cut short, a crowd cropped, a question pretending to be a fact; your job is to find it before you believe or share.

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**Who acts:** puzzle, number, question, job, you, your · **What happens:** hide, sound, cut, crop, pretend, be · **To what, where:** trick, olympiad lesson, clip, crowd, fact

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★» 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 (puzzle, number, question, job), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:042-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick.lesson:0
# text = In this olympiad lesson every puzzle hides a trick: a number that sounds huge, a clip cut short, a crowd cropped, a question pretending to be a fact; your job is to find it before you believe or share.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 042-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	olympiad	olympiad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	clip	clip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
20	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	cropped	crop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:parataxis
28	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advcl
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	xcomp	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
43	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	conj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | every puzzle | a trick |  | this olympiad lesson |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent trick=Patient in lesson=Location |
| 2 | **sound** | present | a number and a question |  |  |  |  | huge *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cut** | participle · passive |  | a clip |  |  |  | short *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **crop** | participle · passive |  | a crowd |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **pretend** | gerund | a question *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | to-infinitive | a question *not said here* | a fact |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | present | your job |  |  |  |  | find *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **believe** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **share** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **job** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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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**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): R5-strong ×2, 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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