Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★, sentence 2
Counting things and counting the gaps between them are different: a 10-metre fence with a post every 2 metres has 5 gaps but 6 posts, and cutting a log into 4 pieces takes only 3 cuts.
Who acts: Counting, metre fence, cutting · What happens: count, be, have, cut, take · To what, where: things, gaps, 5 gaps, log, 4 pieces, 3 cuts
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★» 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 (Counting, metre fence, cutting), 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 | Counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 different | csubj |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Counting | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 counting | cc |
| 4 | counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Counting | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gaps | det |
| 6 | gaps | gap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 counting | obj |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gaps | nmod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 different | cop |
| 10 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 fence | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fence | det |
| 13 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 metre | nummod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 10 | punct |
| 15 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fence | compound |
| 16 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 has | nsubj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 post | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 post | det |
| 19 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fence | nmod |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 metres | det |
| 21 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 metres | nummod |
| 22 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 post | nmod:unmarked |
| 23 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 different | parataxis |
| 24 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 gaps | nummod |
| 25 | gaps | gap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 has | obj |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 posts | cc |
| 27 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 posts | nummod |
| 28 | posts | post | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 gaps | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 takes | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 cutting | cc |
| 31 | cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 takes | csubj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 log | det |
| 33 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cutting | obj |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 pieces | case |
| 35 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 pieces | nummod |
| 36 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 cutting | obl |
| 37 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 has | conj |
| 38 | only | only | ADV | _ | 39 3 | advmod |
| 39 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 cuts | nummod |
| 40 | cuts | cut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 takes | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 different | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | gerund | things | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | |||||
| 2 | count | gerund | the gaps | between gaps = gap | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Counting | different property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | present | a metre fence with a post every 2 metres | 5 gaps but 6 posts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Patient | ||||
| 5 | cut | gerund | a log | 4 pieces | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent log=Material into piece=Product | ||||
| 6 | take | present | cutting | 3 cuts | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Theme |
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:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning.lesson:2.
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. 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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