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title: In the dark, from a drawer of red, blue and black socks, taking 4 so… — Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: In the dark, from a drawer of red, blue and black socks, taking 4 socks is enough to be sure of a matching pair; 3 could all be different. Who acts: taking, 3. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★, sentence 8

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In the dark, from a drawer of red, blue and black socks, taking 4 socks is enough to be sure of a matching pair; 3 could all be different.

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**Who acts:** taking, 3 · **What happens:** take, be, match · **To what, where:** 4 socks, dark

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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 (taking, 3), 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:8
# text = In the dark, from a drawer of red, blue and black socks, taking 4 socks is enough to be sure of a matching pair; 3 could all be different.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	drawer	drawer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
9	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
14	socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj
17	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	matching	match	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
27	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
29	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nsubj	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	all	all	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:advmod|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
33	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund |  | 4 socks |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sock=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | taking |  |  | the dark from a drawer of red socks |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | taking *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of a matching pair; sure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **match** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | could | 3 |  |  |  |  | all, different *property* | tree rules |

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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:8`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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