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title: Date puzzles use simple sums: if Van Gogh was born in 1853 and paint… — Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and my… · tree and pragmatics
description: Date puzzles use simple sums: if Van Gogh was born in 1853 and painted The Starry Night in 1889, he was 36 then, and putting paintings in order needs only their years side by side. Who acts: Date puzzles, Van, putting. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★
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# Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★, sentence 2

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Date puzzles use simple sums: if Van Gogh was born in 1853 and painted The Starry Night in 1889, he was 36 then, and putting paintings in order needs only their years side by side.

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**Who acts:** Date puzzles, Van, putting · **What happens:** use, bear, paint, be, put, need · **To what, where:** simple sums, Van, 1853, Starry Night, 1889, 36

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★» of the arts 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 (Date puzzles, Van, putting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:042-olympiad-picture-puzzles.lesson:2
# text = Date puzzles use simple sums: if Van Gogh was born in 1853 and painted The Starry Night in 1889, he was 36 then, and putting paintings in order needs only their years side by side.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 042-olympiad-picture-puzzles.lesson
# annotation = 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sums	sum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	Van	Van	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	Gogh	Gogh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1853	1853	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	painted	paint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
16	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Starry	Starry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Night	night	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	1889	1889	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	36	36	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	parataxis	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	putting	put	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:nsubj
29	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	only	only	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
36	side	side	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | Date puzzles | simple sums |  |  | then |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Patient |
| 2 | **bear** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | Van |  | 1853 |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **paint** | past |  | the Starry Night |  | 1889 |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent night=Theme in 1889=Destination |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Van | 36 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **put** | gerund |  | paintings |  | order |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent painting=Theme in order=Destination |
| 6 | **need** | present | putting |  |  |  | year |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:arts:042-olympiad-picture-puzzles.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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