SATs: the reading paper, sentence 14
The questions are not designed to trick you, but they must be read carefully.
What happens: not design, trick, read · To what, where: questions, you, evidence
This is a sentence of the lesson «SATs: the reading paper» of the english 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 questions | det |
| 2 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 designed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 designed | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 designed | advmod |
| 5 | designed | design | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 trick | mark |
| 7 | trick | trick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 designed | advcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 trick | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 read | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 read | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 read | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 read | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 read | aux:pass |
| 14 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 designed | conj |
| 15 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 14 read | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 designed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not design | present · passive | the questions | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 2 | trick | to-infinitive | you | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | |||||
| 3 | read | must · passive | evidence | carefully property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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, 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:english:051-sats-the-reading-paper.lesson:14.
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): no change. 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.
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