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description: Order puzzles need care too: "Ann is taller than Ben, and Cal is taller than Ben" tells you who is shortest, but not who is tallest. Who acts: Order puzzles, Ann, Cal, taller. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: logic traps and if-then ★★★» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Olympiad: logic traps and if-then ★★★, sentence 6

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Order puzzles need care too: "Ann is taller than Ben, and Cal is taller than Ben" tells you who is shortest, but not who is tallest.

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**Who acts:** Order puzzles, Ann, Cal, taller · **What happens:** need, be, tell, not be · **To what, where:** care, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: logic traps and if-then ★★★» of the world 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 (Order puzzles, Ann, Cal, taller), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:193-olympiad-logic-traps-and-if-then.lesson:6
# text = Order puzzles need care too: "Ann is taller than Ben, and Cal is taller than Ben" tells you who is shortest, but not who is tallest.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 193-olympiad-logic-traps-and-if-then.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	Order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	Ann	Ann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	nsubj	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	Cal	Cal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	conj	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	shortest	short	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	ccomp	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	tallest	tall	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **need** | present | Order puzzles | care |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Ann |  |  |  |  | than Ben; tall *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Cal |  |  |  |  | than Ben; tall *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | taller |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | short *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | tree rules |

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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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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