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title: "I've waited forever" or "a million years" is not a number to use; t… — Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: "I've waited forever" or "a million years" is not a number to use; the number that counts is the one on the clock, or the last one someone says after correcting themselves. Who acts: someone, number. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★» of the world course of Mova's pri
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# Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★, sentence 8

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"I've waited forever" or "a million years" is not a number to use; the number that counts is the one on the clock, or the last one someone says after correcting themselves.

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**Who acts:** someone, number · **What happens:** wait, not be, use, count, be, say · **To what, where:** number, one, clock, last one, People · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (someone, number), 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:8
# text = "I've waited forever" or "a million years" is not a number to use; the number that counts is the one on the clock, or the last one someone says after correcting themselves.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	waited	wait	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
5	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=26:punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
35	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	36	nsubj	_	_
36	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
38	correcting	correct	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
39	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	38	obj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26: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 | **wait** *in a quote* | present · perfect | someone |  |  |  | year | forever *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present |  | a number |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | to-infinitive | the number *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **count** | present | the number |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the number | the one or the last one |  | the clock |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | someone | the last one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
| 7 | **correct** *speech: disagree* | gerund | someone *not said here* | People |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |

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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:8`.

**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, R6-punct-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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