Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★, sentence 8
"I've waited forever" or "a million years" is not a number to use; the number that counts is the one on the clock, or the last one someone says after correcting themselves.
Who acts: someone, number · What happens: wait, not be, use, count, be, say · To what, where: number, one, clock, last one, People · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (someone, number), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 waited | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 waited | aux |
| 4 | waited | wait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 number | advcl |
| 5 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 4 waited | advmod |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 waited | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 years | cc |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 years | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 million | det |
| 10 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 waited | obl |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 years | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 number | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 number | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 number | det |
| 16 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 one | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 use | mark |
| 18 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 number | acl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 number | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 number | det |
| 21 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 one | nsubj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 counts | nsubj |
| 23 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 number | acl:relcl |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 one | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 one | det |
| 26 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 clock | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 clock | det |
| 29 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 one | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 one | punct |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 one | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 one | det |
| 33 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 one | amod |
| 34 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 one | conj |
| 35 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 36 says | nsubj |
| 36 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 one | acl:relcl |
| 37 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 38 correcting | mark |
| 38 | correcting | correct | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 says | advcl |
| 39 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 38 correcting | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 number | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | present · perfect | someone | year | forever property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | not is a | present | a number | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | use | to-infinitive | the number not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | count | present | the number | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | the number | the one or the last one | the clock | tree rules | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | present | someone | the last one not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 7 | correct speech: disagree | gerund | someone not said here | People | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
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:8.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-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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