Trick questions that catch quick thinkers, sentence 10
If you overtake the runner in second place, you take second place; the leader is still ahead of you.
Who acts: you, leader · What happens: overtake, take, be · To what, where: runner, second place
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 (you, leader), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 overtake | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 overtake | nsubj |
| 3 | overtake | overtake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 runner | det |
| 5 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 overtake | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 place | amod |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 overtake | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 take | nsubj |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 overtake | conj |
| 12 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 place | amod |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 you | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 leader | det |
| 16 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ahead | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 ahead | cop |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 ahead | advmod |
| 19 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 3 overtake | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 ahead | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 you | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overtake | infinitive | you | the runner | second place | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | present | you | second place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the leader | still | of you; ahead 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:world:181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers.lesson:10.
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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