Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, sentence 2
Some questions ask you to put events in order, some to count, some to say how big or bad a thing really is; turn each phrase into plain words first, then solve.
Who acts: questions, some · What happens: ask, put, count, say, be, turn · To what, where: you, events, order, some, phrase, plain words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★» of the euphemisms 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 (questions, some), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 questions | det |
| 2 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 put | mark |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ask | xcomp |
| 7 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 put | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 order | case |
| 9 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 count | punct |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 count | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 count | mark |
| 13 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ask | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 count | punct |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 count | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 say | mark |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 count | parataxis |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 big | advmod |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 say | ccomp |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 bad | cc |
| 21 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 big | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 thing | det |
| 23 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 is | nsubj |
| 24 | really | really | ADV | _ | 23 thing | advmod |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 big | cop |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 turn | punct |
| 27 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 count | advcl |
| 28 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 phrase | det |
| 29 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 turn | obj |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 words | case |
| 31 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 words | amod |
| 32 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 turn | obl |
| 33 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 turn | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 solve | punct |
| 35 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 solve | advmod |
| 36 | solve | solve | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 count | parataxis |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | some questions | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | put not said to happen | to-infinitive | some questions not said here | events | order | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent event=Theme in order=Destination | |||
| 3 | count | to-infinitive | some | some | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | big property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 7 | turn | infinitive | some not said here | each phrase | plain words | first property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent phrase=Theme into word=Trajectory | ||
| 8 | solve | infinitive | then | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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:euphemisms:042-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines.lesson:2.
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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