Trick questions that catch quick thinkers, sentence 0

Trick questions are built to catch quick thinkers: they get you starting the sum before you have read all the words.

Who acts: questions, you · What happens: build, catch, get, start, read · To what, where: Trick questions, quick thinkers, sum, words

This is a sentence of the lesson «Trick questions that catch quick thinkers» 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 (questions, you), 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	Trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 questions	compound
2	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 built	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 built	aux:pass
4	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 catch	mark
6	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 built	advcl
7	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thinkers	amod
8	thinkers	thinker	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 catch	obj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 get	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 get	nsubj
11	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 catch	advcl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 starting	nsubj
13	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 get	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sum	det
15	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 starting	obj
16	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 read	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 read	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 read	aux
19	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 starting	advcl
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 words	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 words	det
22	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 read	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 built	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	build	present · passive		Trick questions	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	catch	to-infinitive		quick thinkers	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thinker=Theme
3	get	present	questions = question		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	start	gerund	you	the sum	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Eventuality
5	read	present · perfect	you	all words	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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:181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers.lesson:0.

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): 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.

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