Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★, sentence 1
The trick is to start from the sharpest clue: "my capital was chosen in 1923 and my biggest city sits on two continents" points straight at Turkey, while "I am in Asia" alone leaves dozens.
Who acts: trick, biggest city, I · What happens: be, choose, sit, point, leaf · To what, where: sharpest clue, capital, 1923, two continents, Turkey, Asia · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★» of the geography 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 (trick, biggest city, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 trick | det |
| 2 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 start | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 start | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 start | mark |
| 5 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 clue | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 clue | det |
| 8 | sharpest | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 clue | amod |
| 9 | clue | clue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 start | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 chosen | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 chosen | punct |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 capital | nmod:poss |
| 13 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 chosen | aux:pass |
| 15 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 points | csubj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 1923 | case |
| 17 | 1923 | 1923 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 chosen | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sits | cc |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 city | nmod:poss |
| 20 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 city | amod |
| 21 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sits | nsubj |
| 22 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 chosen | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 continents | case |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 continents | nummod |
| 25 | continents | continent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sits | obl |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 chosen | punct |
| 27 | points | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 start | parataxis |
| 28 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 27 points | advmod |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 Turkey | case |
| 30 | Turkey | Turkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 points | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 points | punct |
| 32 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 40 leaves | mark |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 Asia | punct |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 Asia | nsubj |
| 35 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 Asia | cop |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 Asia | case |
| 37 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 leaves | advcl |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 Asia | punct |
| 39 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 40 leaves | advmod |
| 40 | leaves | leaf | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 points | advcl |
| 41 | dozens | dozen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 leaves | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 start | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the trick | the sharpest clue | start property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | choose in a quote | past · passive | my capital | 1923 | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit in a quote | present | my biggest city | two continents | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on continent=Location | ||||
| 4 | point | present | Turkey | straight property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | I | Asia | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | leaf | present | dozens | alone property | tree rules |
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.
Licence: CC 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:geography:064-olympiad-which-country-am-i.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.
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