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description: Picture Leo, whose grandad died last month: at school he jokes all day, then snaps at his best friend over a borrowed pencil; one clue alone says "he's fine" or "he's mean", but together they say "he's carrying something heavy". Who acts: you, grandad, one clue, clue. A sentence of the lesson «Olymp
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# Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★, sentence 1

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Picture Leo, whose grandad died last month: at school he jokes all day, then snaps at his best friend over a borrowed pencil; one clue alone says "he's fine" or "he's mean", but together they say "he's carrying something heavy".

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**Who acts:** you, grandad, one clue, clue, words · **What happens:** picture, die, joke, snap, borrow, say · **To what, where:** Leo, school, borrowed pencil, something · **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 (you, grandad, one clue, clue), 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:1
# text = Picture Leo, whose grandad died last month: at school he jokes all day, then snaps at his best friend over a borrowed pencil; one clue alone says "he's fine" or "he's mean", but together they say "he's carrying something heavy".
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	Leo	Leo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	grandad	grandad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	jokes	joke	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	snaps	snap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
22	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	borrowed	borrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	pencil	pencil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	clue	clue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
31	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	ccomp	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
41	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	_
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	together	together	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
46	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
48	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	51	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=47:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	ccomp	_	_
52	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	51	obj	_	_
53	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
54	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	51	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=53:punct
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | Leo |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent leo=Theme |
| 2 | **die** | past | grandad |  |  |  | month |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **joke** *speech: other* | present | grandad |  |  | school | day |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **snap** | present | grandad *not said here* |  |  | a borrowed pencil | then | at grandad's best friend | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at friend=Location |
| 5 | **borrow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | one clue |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | clue |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present | clue |  |  |  |  | mean *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | words *= word* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 10 | **carry** *in a quote* | present · progressive | clue | something |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=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:reflection:031-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times.lesson:1`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-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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