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title: A clock striking 6 makes 5 gaps between its bongs; if that takes 5 s… — Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: A clock striking 6 makes 5 gaps between its bongs; if that takes 5 seconds, each gap is 1 second, so striking 12, with 11 gaps, takes 11 seconds. Who acts: clock, that, gap, striking. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★» of the world course of Mova's primary school with
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# Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★, sentence 11

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A clock striking 6 makes 5 gaps between its bongs; if that takes 5 seconds, each gap is 1 second, so striking 12, with 11 gaps, takes 11 seconds.

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**Who acts:** clock, that, gap, striking · **What happens:** strike, make, take, be · **To what, where:** 6, 5 gaps, 1 second, 12

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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 (clock, that, gap, striking), 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:11
# text = A clock striking 6 makes 5 gaps between its bongs; if that takes 5 seconds, each gap is 1 second, so striking 12, with 11 gaps, takes 11 seconds.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	gaps	gap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	bongs	bong	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
14	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	csubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
26	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	gaps	gap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
33	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | gerund | a clock *not said here* | 6 |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 6=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present | a clock | 5 gaps |  |  |  | between clock's bongs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material gap=Product |
| 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 | **strike** | gerund |  | 12 |  |  |  | with 11 gaps | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent 12=Patient with gap=Instrument |
| 6 | **take** | present | striking |  |  |  | second |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:11`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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