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title: Time puzzles look like sums, but most of them hide one trap: a gap c… — Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Time puzzles look like sums, but most of them hide one trap: a gap counted as a moment, a year 0 that never was, or a clock that jumped forward in the night. Who acts: Time puzzles, most, year, clock. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★» of the world course of Mova's pr
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# Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★, sentence 0

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Time puzzles look like sums, but most of them hide one trap: a gap counted as a moment, a year 0 that never was, or a clock that jumped forward in the night.

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**Who acts:** Time puzzles, most, year, clock · **What happens:** look, hide, count, not be, jump · **To what, where:** one trap, gap

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★» of the world 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 (Time puzzles, most, year, clock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles.lesson:0
# text = Time puzzles look like sums, but most of them hide one trap: a gap counted as a moment, a year 0 that never was, or a clock that jumped forward in the night.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	sums	sum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
17	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
24	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	flat	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=23:punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | Time puzzles |  |  |  |  | like sums | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hide** | present | most of puzzles | one trap |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trap=Patient |
| 3 | **count** | participle |  | a gap *not said here* |  |  | moment |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **be** | past | a year or a clock |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **jump** | past | a clock |  |  |  | night | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles.lesson:0`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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/).

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