Grammar puzzles, part two, sentence 4
The trick with every puzzle is to slow down, count carefully and test your answer before you shout it out.
Who acts: trick, you, your · What happens: be, count, test, shout out, answer · To what, where: answer
This is a sentence of the lesson «Grammar puzzles, part two» of the language 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 (trick, you, your), 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 trick | det |
| 2 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slow | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 puzzle | case |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 puzzle | det |
| 5 | puzzle | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trick | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 slow | cop |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 slow | mark |
| 8 | slow | slow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 slow | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 count | punct |
| 11 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 slow | conj |
| 12 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 11 count | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 test | cc |
| 14 | test | test | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 slow | conj |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 answer | nmod:poss |
| 16 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 test | obj |
| 17 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 19 shout | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 shout | nsubj |
| 19 | shout | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 test | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 shout | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 shout | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 slow | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the trick with every puzzle | slow property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | count | infinitive | the trick with every puzzle not said here | carefully property | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | test | infinitive | the trick with every puzzle not said here | your answer | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shout out speech: express | present | you | answer | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 5 | answer | your | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=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:language:036-grammar-puzzles-part-two.lesson:4.
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): R3-conj-first ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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