Bets, dares and silly reasons, sentence 11

A question built so that every answer looks wrong is a trick, or loaded, question; it's fine to say "that's a trick question".

Who acts: answer, question, that · What happens: build, look, be, load, say · To what, where: question, trick, trick question · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bets, dares and silly reasons» of the world 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 (answer, question, that), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 question	det
2	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trick	nsubj
3	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 question	acl
4	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	8 looks	mark
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 so	fixed
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 answer	det
7	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looks	nsubj
8	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 built	advcl
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 looks	xcomp
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 trick	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 trick	det
12	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 loaded	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 question	cc
15	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 trick	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 question	punct
17	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trick	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 fine	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fine	expl
20	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 fine	cop
21	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 trick	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 say	mark
23	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 fine	csubj
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 question	punct
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 question	nsubj
26	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 question	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 question	det
28	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 question	compound
29	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fine	parataxis
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 question	punct
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 trick	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	build	participle		a question not said here		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	look	present	every answer		wrong property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is a	present	a question	a trick or question		tree rules
4	load	participle	a question not said here			vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	is	present			fine property	tree rules
6	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is a in a quote	present	that	a trick question		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:world:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.lesson:11.

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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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.

See the release 0.4.

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