--- title: Three pills, one every half hour, starting now, are taken at 0, 30 a… — Trick questions that catch quick thinkers · tree and pragmatics description: Three pills, one every half hour, starting now, are taken at 0, 30 and 60 minutes, so they are all gone in one hour. Who acts: pills. 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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 (pills), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers.lesson:16 # text = Three pills, one every half hour, starting now, are taken at 0, 30 and 60 minutes, so they are all gone in one hour. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 pills pill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 5 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 6 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 7 compound _ _ 7 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 starting start VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 advcl _ _ 10 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 0 0 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 17 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 flat _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 60 60 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:aux:pass 25 all all ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | gerund | | | | | now | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **take** | present · passive | | Three pills | | 0 and 60 minutes | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at 0=Asset | | 3 | **is** | present | pills *= pill* | | | | hour | all, go *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:world:181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers.lesson:16`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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