Trick questions that catch quick thinkers, sentence 16

Three pills, one every half hour, starting now, are taken at 0, 30 and 60 minutes, so they are all gone in one hour.

Who acts: pills · What happens: start, take, be · To what, where: Three pills, 0

This is a sentence of the lesson «Trick questions that catch quick thinkers» 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 (pills), 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	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pills	nummod
2	pills	pill	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 taken	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hour	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hour	nummod
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 hour	det
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	7 hour	compound
7	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pills	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 starting	punct
9	starting	start	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 taken	advcl
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 starting	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 pills	punct
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 taken	aux:pass
13	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 0	case
15	0	0	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 taken	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 30	punct
17	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 0	flat
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 minutes	cc
19	60	60	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 minutes	nummod
20	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 0	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gone	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	26 gone	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gone	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 gone	cop
25	all	all	ADV	_	26 gone	advmod
26	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 taken	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 hour	case
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 hour	nummod
29	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gone	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 taken	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	gerund				now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	take	present · passive		Three pills	0 and 60 minutes			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at 0=Asset
3	is	present	pills = pill			hour	all, go 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:world:181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers.lesson:16.

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 ×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.

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