--- title: Counting things and counting the gaps between them are different: a… — Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Counting things and counting the gaps between them are different: a 10-metre fence with a post every 2 metres has 5 gaps but 6 posts, and cutting a log into 4 pieces takes only 3 cuts. Who acts: Counting, metre fence, cutting. 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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 (Counting, metre fence, cutting), 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:2 # text = Counting things and counting the gaps between them are different: a 10-metre fence with a post every 2 metres has 5 gaps but 6 posts, and cutting a log into 4 pieces takes only 3 cuts. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Counting count VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 csubj _ _ 2 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 counting count VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 gaps gap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 between between ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nmod _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 13 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 metre metre NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 post post NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ _ 21 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod:unmarked _ _ 23 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 24 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 gaps gap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 posts post NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 cutting cut VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 csubj _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 log log NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 into into ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 37 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 38 only only ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 40 cuts cut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | gerund | | things | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 2 | **count** | gerund | | the gaps | | | | between gaps *= gap* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | Counting | | | | | different *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | present | a metre fence with a post every 2 metres | 5 gaps but 6 posts | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Patient | | 5 | **cut** | gerund | | a log | | 4 pieces | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent log=Material into piece=Product | | 6 | **take** | present | cutting | 3 cuts | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=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:2`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning/1/) - next →: [Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning/)