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title: "If a card has a vowel on one side, it has an even number on the oth… — Olympiad: logic traps and if-then ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: "If a card has a vowel on one side, it has an even number on the other": a card showing A could break it, and so could a card showing 7, but a card showing 4 can't, whatever is on its back. Who acts: card, whatever. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: logic traps and if-then ★★★» of the world course
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# Olympiad: logic traps and if-then ★★★, sentence 3

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"If a card has a vowel on one side, it has an even number on the other": a card showing A could break it, and so could a card showing 7, but a card showing 4 can't, whatever is on its back.

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**Who acts:** card, whatever · **What happens:** have, show, break, be · **To what, where:** vowel, one side, even number, other, A, 7 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: logic traps and if-then ★★★» 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 (card, whatever), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:193-olympiad-logic-traps-and-if-then.lesson:3
# text = "If a card has a vowel on one side, it has an even number on the other": a card showing A could break it, and so could a card showing 7, but a card showing 4 can't, whatever is on its back.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 193-olympiad-logic-traps-and-if-then.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	vowel	vowel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	even	even	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
16	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nmod	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	A	A	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
35	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl	_	_
36	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	obj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	conj	_	_
42	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	41	obj	_	_
43	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
44	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
46	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj	_	_
47	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | a card | a vowel |  | one side |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vowel=Patient |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | card | a even number |  | the other |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **show** | gerund | a card *not said here* | A |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent a=Recipient |
| 4 | **break** | could | a card | A |  |  |  | a card *obl* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient |
| 5 | **show** | gerund | a card *not said here* | 7 |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 7=Recipient |
| 6 | **show** | can | a card | 4 |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 4=Recipient |
| 7 | **is** | present | whatever |  |  | card's back |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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