--- title: Picture Ruby from Cardiff at the bus stop, moaning "It took a millio… — Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Picture Ruby from Cardiff at the bus stop, moaning "It took a million years for the bus, I'm tamping" - "a million years" is hyperbole, not a number to count, and "tamping" is Welsh for furious; olympiad puzzles love a big-sounding number that does not count. Who acts: Ruby, It, I, million years. 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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 (Ruby, It, I, million years), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:space:031-olympiad-planet-puzzles.lesson:3 # text = Picture Ruby from Cardiff at the bus stop, moaning "It took a million years for the bus, I'm tamping" - "a million years" is hyperbole, not a number to count, and "tamping" is Welsh for furious; olympiad puzzles love a big-sounding number that does not count. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = space # lesson = 031-olympiad-planet-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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 2 Ruby Ruby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Cardiff Cardiff PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 stop stop NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 moaning moan VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 acl _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 12 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:expl 13 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det 15 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 20 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 tamping tamp VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 - - PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 hyperbole hyperbole NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 41 " " PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ _ 42 tamping tamping NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 45 Welsh welsh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 parataxis _ _ 46 for for ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 furious furious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 obl _ _ 48 ; ; PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 49 olympiad olympiad NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 puzzles puzzle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 nsubj _ _ 51 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 parataxis _ _ 52 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 53 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 54 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 53 punct _ _ 55 sounding sound VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 56 amod _ _ 56 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obj _ _ 57 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 60 nsubj _ _ 58 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 60 aux _ _ 59 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 60 advmod _ _ 60 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 56 acl:relcl _ _ 61 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | infinitive | | Ruby | | Cardiff at the bus stop | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent ruby=Theme | | 2 | **moan** | gerund | Ruby *not said here* | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **take** *in a quote* | past | It | | | | year | for the bus | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for bus=Beneficiary | | 4 | **tamp** *in a quote* | present · progressive | I | a number | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | million years | hyperbole | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **count** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a number *not said here* | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **is** | present | tamping | | | | | for furious; welsh *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **love** | present | olympiad puzzles | a big sounding number | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus | | 9 | **sound** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 10 | **not** **count** | present · do-support | a big sounding number | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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:space:031-olympiad-planet-puzzles.lesson:3`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/31-olympiad-planet-puzzles/2/) - next →: [Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/31-olympiad-planet-puzzles/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/31-olympiad-planet-puzzles/)