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# Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★, sentence 0

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In an olympiad puzzle about feelings, the words people say are only one clue; the face, the timing, what they suddenly stop doing and what they call "just" or "only" are clues too, and a good reader puts them together like a detective.

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**Who acts:** people, words, clues, good reader · **What happens:** say, be, stop, do, call, put · **To what, where:** words, one clue, olympiad puzzle, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★» of the reflection 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 (people, words, clues, good reader), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:031-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times.lesson:0
# text = In an olympiad puzzle about feelings, the words people say are only one clue; the face, the timing, what they suddenly stop doing and what they call "just" or "only" are clues too, and a good reader puts them together like a detective.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 031-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times.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, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	olympiad	olympiad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	clue	clue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	timing	timing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	conj	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	xcomp	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	parataxis	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct
33	just	just	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct
37	only	only	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
39	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
40	clues	clue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
41	too	too	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
48	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	together	together	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
50	like	like	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	detective	detective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=49:obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | people | the words *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the words | one clue |  | a olympiad puzzle about feelings |  | the face and the timing *nmod* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stop** | present | people |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **do** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **call** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **does** | present | clues |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **put** | present | a good reader | people |  |  |  | like a detective; together *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal |

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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:reflection:031-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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