Olympiad: tricky comprehension, sentence 6
Ben is taller than Cal, but Cal is taller than Dee", the order from tallest is Amy, Ben, Cal, Dee, so Dee is the shortest.
Who acts: Ben, Cal, Dee · What happens: be · To what, where: Amy
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 (Ben, Cal, Dee), 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 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 taller | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 taller | cop |
| 3 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 Cal | case |
| 5 | Cal | Cal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 taller | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 taller | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 taller | cc |
| 8 | Cal | Cal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 taller | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 taller | cop |
| 10 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 taller | conj |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 Dee | case |
| 12 | Dee | Dee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 taller | obl |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Dee | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 order | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 order | det |
| 16 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Dee | appos |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 Amy | case |
| 18 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 order | nmod |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 Amy | cop |
| 20 | Amy | Amy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 order | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ben | punct |
| 22 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Amy | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Cal | punct |
| 24 | Cal | Cal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Amy | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Dee | punct |
| 26 | Dee | Dee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Amy | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 shortest | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 shortest | advmod |
| 29 | Dee | Dee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 shortest | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 shortest | cop |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 shortest | det |
| 32 | shortest | short | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 taller | parataxis |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 taller | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Ben | than Cal; tall property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Cal | than Dee; tall property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Amy and Ben and Cal and Dee | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Dee | short property | 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:6.
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 ×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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