--- title: Counting the moments instead of the gaps between them (or the other… — Trick questions that catch quick thinkers · tree and pragmatics description: Counting the moments instead of the gaps between them (or the other way round) is called the fence-post error. Who acts: Counting. 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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 (Counting), 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:17 # text = Counting the moments instead of the gaps between them (or the other way round) is called the fence-post error. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Counting count VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 csubj:pass _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 moments moment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 7 case _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 4 fixed _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 gaps gap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 8 between between ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nmod _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 15 round round ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det 20 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 22 post post X AFX _ 23 compound _ _ 23 error error NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj 24 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | gerund | | | | | moment | instead the gaps between gaps or the other way | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | Counting | the fence post error | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | 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:17`. **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, 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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