Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★, sentence 11
A clock striking 6 makes 5 gaps between its bongs; if that takes 5 seconds, each gap is 1 second, so striking 12, with 11 gaps, takes 11 seconds.
Who acts: clock, that, gap, striking · What happens: strike, make, take, be · To what, where: 6, 5 gaps, 1 second, 12
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★» 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 (clock, that, gap, striking), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 clock | det |
| 2 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | striking | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 clock | acl |
| 4 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 striking | obj |
| 5 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 gaps | nummod |
| 7 | gaps | gap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 makes | obj |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 bongs | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bongs | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bongs | bong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gaps | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 takes | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 takes | mark |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 takes | nsubj |
| 14 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 makes | conj |
| 15 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 seconds | nummod |
| 16 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 takes | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 second | punct |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 gap | det |
| 19 | gap | gap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 second | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 second | cop |
| 21 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 second | nummod |
| 22 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 makes | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 striking | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 striking | advmod |
| 25 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 takes | csubj |
| 26 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 striking | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 gaps | punct |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 gaps | case |
| 29 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 gaps | nummod |
| 30 | gaps | gap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 striking | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 takes | punct |
| 32 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 makes | conj |
| 33 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 seconds | nummod |
| 34 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 takes | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | gerund | a clock not said here | 6 | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 6=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | present | a clock | 5 gaps | between clock's bongs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material gap=Product | |||
| 3 | take a condition, not said to happen | present | that | second | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | each gap | 1 second | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | strike | gerund | 12 | with 11 gaps | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent 12=Patient with gap=Instrument | ||||
| 6 | take | present | striking | second | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles.lesson:11.
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, 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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