Trick questions that catch quick thinkers, sentence 12
"All but 9" means "all except 9", so if all but 9 sheep run away, 9 sheep are left.
Who acts: All, 9 sheep · What happens: mean, run away, leave · To what, where: all, 9 sheep
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 (All, 9 sheep), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 means | nsubj |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 9 | cc |
| 4 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 All | conj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 All | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 all | punct |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 means | obj |
| 9 | except | except | ADP | _ | 10 9 | case |
| 10 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 all | nmod |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 all | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 run | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 run | advmod |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 run | mark |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 sheep | det |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 9 | cc |
| 17 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 sheep | nummod |
| 18 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 run | nsubj |
| 19 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 left | advcl |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 run | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 left | punct |
| 22 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 sheep | nummod |
| 23 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 left | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 left | aux:pass |
| 25 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 means | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | 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 | mean | present | All | all | except 9 | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Topic | |||
| 2 | run away | present | all 9 sheep | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | present · passive | 9 sheep | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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:12.
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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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