--- title: Many puzzles hide a race: light arrives almost at once, while sound… — Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and ma… · tree and pragmatics description: Many puzzles hide a race: light arrives almost at once, while sound needs about three seconds for each kilometre, so the gap between the flash and the bang tells you how far away a storm is. Who acts: Many puzzles, light, sound, gap. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many puzzles, light, sound, gap), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:043-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets.lesson:1 # text = Many puzzles hide a race: light arrives almost at once, while sound needs about three seconds for each kilometre, so the gap between the flash and the bang tells you how far away a storm is. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 043-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 puzzles puzzle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 arrives arrive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 almost almost ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 8 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 while while SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl 16 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 17 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 kilometre kilometre NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod 22 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 23 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 26 between between ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 flash flash NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=28:cc 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 bang bang NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 32 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 iobj _ _ 34 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 35 advmod _ _ 35 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 32 ccomp _ _ 36 away away ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | present | Many puzzles | a race | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Patient | | 2 | **arrive** | present | light | a race *not said here* | | | | once *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **need** | present | sound | | | | second | for each kilometre | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the gap between the flash and the bang | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 5 | **is** | present | a storm | | | | | away, far *property* | tree rules | 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](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:physics:043-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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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