--- title: Among 9 coins with one heavier fake, a balance finds the fake in 2 w… — Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Among 9 coins with one heavier fake, a balance finds the fake in 2 weighings: weigh 3 against 3, then 1 against 1 from the heavier three, or from the three left out if it balances. Who acts: balance, three. 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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 (balance, three), 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:17 # text = Among 9 coins with one heavier fake, a balance finds the fake in 2 weighings: weigh 3 against 3, then 1 against 1 from the heavier three, or from the three left out if it balances. # 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 Among among ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 coins coin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 heavier heavy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 amod _ _ 7 fake fake NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 balance balance NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 fake fake NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 weighings weighing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 18 weigh weigh VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 19 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 obj _ _ 20 against against ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 23 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:advmod 24 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 compound _ _ 25 against against ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nmod _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 heavier heavy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 amod _ _ 30 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nsubj _ _ 36 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 37 out out ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 if if SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 balances balance VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | present | a balance | the fake | | 2 weighings | | among 9 coins with one heavier fake | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent fake=Theme three=Attribute | | 2 | **weigh** | infinitive | | 3 | | | | against 3 | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme 3=Value | | 3 | **leave out** | past | the three | | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **balance** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | balance | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:17`. **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/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning/16/) - next →: [Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning/)