Olympiad: tricky comprehension, sentence 3
People do not always mean what they say: Dad's "Oh, brilliant, another rainy sports day" is sarcasm, and Tom saying he didn't eat the biscuits while brushing off crumbs is a clue that he is fibbing.
Who acts: People, Tom, brushing · What happens: not mean, say, be, not eat, brush off, fib · To what, where: day sarcasm, biscuits, crumbs, clue · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» 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 (People, Tom, brushing), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 mean | advmod |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 mean | advmod |
| 5 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 say | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 say | nsubj |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | ccomp |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 brilliant | punct |
| 10 | Dad | Dad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 brilliant | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Dad | case |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 brilliant | punct |
| 13 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 15 brilliant | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Oh | punct |
| 15 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 say | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 brilliant | punct |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 day | det |
| 18 | rainy | rainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 day | amod |
| 19 | sports | sport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 day | compound |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sarcasm | compound |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 day | punct |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 sarcasm | cop |
| 23 | sarcasm | sarcasm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brilliant | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 saying | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 saying | cc |
| 26 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 saying | nsubj |
| 27 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 brilliant | advcl |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 eat | nsubj |
| 29 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 eat | aux |
| 30 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 eat | advmod |
| 31 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 saying | ccomp |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 biscuits | det |
| 33 | biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 eat | obj |
| 34 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 35 brushing | mark |
| 35 | brushing | brush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 clue | csubj |
| 36 | off | off | ADP | _ | 35 brushing | compound:prt |
| 37 | crumbs | crumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 brushing | obj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 clue | cop |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 clue | det |
| 40 | clue | clue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 eat | parataxis |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 fibbing | mark |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 fibbing | nsubj |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 fibbing | aux |
| 44 | fibbing | fib | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 clue | acl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=none, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mean | present · do-support | People | always property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | People | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | People not said here | day sarcasm | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | Tom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not eat | past · do-support | Tom | the biscuits | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent biscuit=Patient | ||||
| 6 | brush off | gerund | crumbs | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is a | present | brushing | a clue | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | fib | present · progressive | Tom | a clue not said here | 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:060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.lesson:3.
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): R6-punct-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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