--- title: A clock striking 6 times has 5 gaps between the strikes; if that tak… — Sounds right, but is wrong · tree and pragmatics description: A clock striking 6 times has 5 gaps between the strikes; if that takes 5 seconds, each gap is 1 second, so 12 strikes (11 gaps) take 11 seconds. Who acts: clock, that, gap, 12 strikes. 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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 (clock, that, gap, 12 strikes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.lesson:12 # text = A clock striking 6 times has 5 gaps between the strikes; if that takes 5 seconds, each gap is 1 second, so 12 strikes (11 gaps) take 11 seconds. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 striking strike VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 gaps gap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 between between ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 strikes strike NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 if if SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 nsubj _ _ 15 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 16 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 20 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 parataxis _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 26 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 strikes strike NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 29 11 11 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 gaps gap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:conj 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 32 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 33 11 11 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **strike** | gerund | a clock *not said here* | | | | time | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present | a clock | 5 gaps | | | | between the strikes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Patient | | 3 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | that | | | | second | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | each gap | 1 second | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **take** | present | 12 strikes | | | | second | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.lesson:12`. **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, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Sounds right, but is wrong, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/11/) - next →: [Sounds right, but is wrong, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/)