--- title: A snail in a 10-metre well that climbs 3 metres each day and slips b… — Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: A snail in a 10-metre well that climbs 3 metres each day and slips back 2 metres each night gets out on day 8, because on the last day it doesn't slip back. Who acts: metre well, snail. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (metre well, snail), 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:12 # text = A snail in a 10-metre well that climbs 3 metres each day and slips back 2 metres each night gets out on day 8, because on the last day it doesn't slip back. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 snail snail NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 metre metre NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 well well NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 climbs climb VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 slips slip VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 17 back back ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod 18 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj 20 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 out out ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 flat _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 28 because because SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 slip slip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 37 back back ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **climb** | present | a metre well | 3 metres | | | day | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location metre=Theme | | 2 | **slip back** | present | a metre well *not said here* | 2 metres | | | night | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **get out** | present | a snail in a metre well | | | | day | | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **slip back** | present · do-support | snail | | | | day | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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. **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:12`. **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/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning/11/) - next →: [Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning/)