Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words, sentence 13
In the riddle "Brothers and sisters I have none, but this man's father is my father's son", "my father's son" can only be the speaker himself, so the man in the photo is his son.
Who acts: Picture Gran, father, son, man · What happens: have, be · To what, where: none, riddle, son, speaker
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words» 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: who acts (Picture Gran, father, son, man), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 riddle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 riddle | det |
| 3 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obl |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Brothers | punct |
| 5 | Brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 have | dislocated |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sisters | cc |
| 7 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Brothers | conj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 son | advcl |
| 10 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 9 have | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 son | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 son | cc |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 man | case |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 son | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 son | cop |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 father | case |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | conj |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 son | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 father | nmod:poss |
| 26 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 son | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 father | case |
| 28 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 speaker | nsubj |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 son | punct |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 speaker | aux |
| 31 | only | only | ADV | _ | 34 speaker | advmod |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 speaker | cop |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 speaker | det |
| 34 | speaker | speaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 35 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 34 speaker | nmod:unmarked |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 son | punct |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 son | advmod |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 man | det |
| 39 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 son | nsubj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 photo | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 photo | det |
| 42 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 man | nmod |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 son | cop |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 son | nmod:poss |
| 45 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 speaker | parataxis |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 speaker | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Picture Gran in Cork = gran | none | the riddle | Brothers and sisters dislocated | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient | ||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this man's father | my father's son | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | can | my father's son | the speaker | speaker nmod:unmarked | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | present | the man in the photo | man's son | tree rules |
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:057-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words.lesson:13.
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 ×2, 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.
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