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title: Grabbing socks in the dark from a drawer of red, blue and black ones… — Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Grabbing socks in the dark from a drawer of red, blue and black ones, 3 socks could all be different colours, but the 4th must match one of them. Who acts: 3 socks, 4th. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★, sentence 4

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Grabbing socks in the dark from a drawer of red, blue and black ones, 3 socks could all be different colours, but the 4th must match one of them.

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**Who acts:** 3 socks, 4th · **What happens:** grab, be, match · **To what, where:** socks, dark, different colours, one

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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 (3 socks, 4th), 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:4
# text = Grabbing socks in the dark from a drawer of red, blue and black ones, 3 socks could all be different colours, but the 4th must match one of them.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Grabbing	grab	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	drawer	drawer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
15	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
22	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	parataxis	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	4th	4th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	29	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:nsubj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord
28	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	match	match	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** | gerund |  | socks |  | the dark |  | from a drawer of red ones | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sock=Theme from drawer=Source |
| 2 | **is a** | could | all 3 socks | different colours |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **match** | must | the 4th | one of socks |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |

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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:4`.

**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): R8-pos-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/).

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