--- title: Some puzzles are best solved backwards: if lily pads double every da… — Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Some puzzles are best solved backwards: if lily pads double every day and cover the pond on day 30, then the day before, day 29, they covered half of it. Who acts: lily pads, puzzles. 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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 (lily pads, puzzles), 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:5 # text = Some puzzles are best solved backwards: if lily pads double every day and cover the pond on day 30, then the day before, day 29, they covered half of it. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 puzzles puzzle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 4 best good ADV RBS Degree=Sup 5 advmod _ _ 5 solved solve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 backwards backward ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 if if SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 lily lily NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 pads pad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 double double VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 12 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 cover cover VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 flat _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 25 before before ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 28 29 29 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 flat _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 covered cover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 32 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 31 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **solve** | present · passive | | some puzzles | | | | backward, good *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 2 | **double** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | lily pads | | | | day | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **cover** | present | lily pads *not said here* | the pond | | | day | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pond=Destination | | 4 | **cover** | past | puzzles *= puzzle* | half of half | | | day | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme half=Destination | 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:5`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning/4/) - next →: [Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning/)