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title: Direction puzzles are about turns: a right turn is a quarter turn cl… — Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Direction puzzles are about turns: a right turn is a quarter turn clockwise, so if you face north and turn right twice you face south, and turning right four times brings you back where you began. Who acts: Direction puzzles, right turn, you, turning. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: maps, direct
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# Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★, sentence 1

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Direction puzzles are about turns: a right turn is a quarter turn clockwise, so if you face north and turn right twice you face south, and turning right four times brings you back where you began.

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**Who acts:** Direction puzzles, right turn, you, turning · **What happens:** be, face, turn, bring, begin · **To what, where:** quarter turn, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★» of the geography 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 (Direction puzzles, right turn, you, turning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:063-olympiad-maps-directions-and-clocks.lesson:1
# text = Direction puzzles are about turns: a right turn is a quarter turn clockwise, so if you face north and turn right twice you face south, and turning right four times brings you back where you began.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 063-olympiad-maps-directions-and-clocks.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	turns	turn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
14	clockwise	clockwise	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	face	face	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
20	north	north	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
23	right	right	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	face	face	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
27	south	south	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	csubj	_	_
31	right	right	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	back	back	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
37	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	39	advmod	_	_
38	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl:relcl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Direction puzzles |  |  |  |  | about turns | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a right turn | quarter turn |  |  |  | clockwise *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **face** | present | you |  |  |  |  | north *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **turn** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | right, twice *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **face** | present | you |  |  |  |  | south *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **turn** | gerund |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **bring** | present | turning |  | you |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
| 8 | **begin** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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:geography:063-olympiad-maps-directions-and-clocks.lesson:1`.

**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, 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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