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title: This olympiad lesson is a puzzle box: Ukrainian is written in Cyrill… — Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzz… · tree and pragmatics
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# Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★, sentence 0

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This olympiad lesson is a puzzle box: Ukrainian is written in Cyrillic letters, and like a UKLO puzzle you can crack its words from a few examples, with no dictionary at all.

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**Who acts:** olympiad lesson, you, lesson · **What happens:** be, write, crack, word · **To what, where:** puzzle box, Ukrainian, Cyrillic letters, words, few examples

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★» of the ukrainian street 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, you, lesson), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:031-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers.lesson:0
# text = This olympiad lesson is a puzzle box: Ukrainian is written in Cyrillic letters, and like a UKLO puzzle you can crack its words from a few examples, with no dictionary at all.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 031-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers.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): no change
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	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Cyrillic	cyrillic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	UKLO	UKLO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	crack	crack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	examples	example	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
33	dictionary	dictionary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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 | **is a** | present | this olympiad lesson | a puzzle box |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **write** | present · passive |  | Ukrainian |  | Cyrillic letters |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in letter=Destination |
| 3 | **crack** | can | you | lesson's words |  | a few examples |  | like a UKLO puzzle; with no dictionary at all | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent word=Patient with dictionary=Instrument |
| 4 | **word** |  | lesson |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «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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**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): no change. **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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