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title: Cutting a log into 4 pieces takes 3 cuts, so at 2 minutes a cut it t… — Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Cutting a log into 4 pieces takes 3 cuts, so at 2 minutes a cut it takes 6 minutes. Who acts: Cutting, it. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★, sentence 10

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Cutting a log into 4 pieces takes 3 cuts, so at 2 minutes a cut it takes 6 minutes.

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**Who acts:** Cutting, it · **What happens:** cut, take · **To what, where:** log, 4 pieces, 3 cuts

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★» 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 (Cutting, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning.lesson:10
# text = Cutting a log into 4 pieces takes 3 cuts, so at 2 minutes a cut it takes 6 minutes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning.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
1	Cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod
7	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	cuts	cut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:unmarked	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **cut** | gerund |  | a log |  | 4 pieces |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent log=Material into piece=Product |
| 2 | **take** | present | Cutting | 3 cuts |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | present | it |  |  |  | minute |  | 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:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning.lesson:10`.

**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. **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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