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title: Read every word: "meteor" and "meteorite" are different things, "day… — Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Read every word: "meteor" and "meteorite" are different things, "day" and "year" swap their usual order on Venus, and a comet's tails point away from the Sun, not always behind the comet. Who acts: you, day, tails, things. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★» of the space course o
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# Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★, sentence 4

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Read every word: "meteor" and "meteorite" are different things, "day" and "year" swap their usual order on Venus, and a comet's tails point away from the Sun, not always behind the comet.

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**Who acts:** you, day, tails, things · **What happens:** read, be, swap, point, order · **To what, where:** word, different things, usual order, Venus

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★» of the space 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, day, tails, things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:space:031-olympiad-planet-puzzles.lesson:4
# text = Read every word: "meteor" and "meteorite" are different things, "day" and "year" swap their usual order on Venus, and a comet's tails point away from the Sun, not always behind the comet.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = space
# lesson = 031-olympiad-planet-puzzles.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	meteor	meteor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	meteorite	meteorite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:compound
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	swap	swap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Venus	Venus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	comet	comet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	point	point	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
36	away	away	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
42	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	45	advmod	_	_
43	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	comet	comet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **read** | imperative | you *not said here* | every word |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | you *not said here* | different things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **swap** | present | day and year | things's usual order |  | Venus |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 4 | **point** | present | a comet's tails |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **order** |  | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: 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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**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:space:031-olympiad-planet-puzzles.lesson:4`.

**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, 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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