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title: Speed puzzles always need two numbers, a distance and a time; to com… — Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Speed puzzles always need two numbers, a distance and a time; to compare two runners, work out how long each would take over the same distance. Who acts: Speed puzzles, each. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★, sentence 1

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Speed puzzles always need two numbers, a distance and a time; to compare two runners, work out how long each would take over the same distance.

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**Who acts:** Speed puzzles, each · **What happens:** need, compare, work out, take over · **To what, where:** two numbers, two runners, same distance

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★» of the physics 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 (Speed puzzles, each), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:044-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons.lesson:1
# text = Speed puzzles always need two numbers, a distance and a time; to compare two runners, work out how long each would take over the same distance.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 044-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons.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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:appos
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	compare	compare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	runners	runner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	work	work	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
22	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advcl
26	over	over	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **need** | present | Speed puzzles | two numbers and a distance and a time |  |  |  | always *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot number=Theme |
| 2 | **compare** | to-infinitive |  | two runners |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent runner=Patient |
| 3 | **work out** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **take over** | would | each | the same distance |  |  |  | long *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:physics:044-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons.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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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