Trick questions that catch quick thinkers, sentence 15
In "Mike's mum has three children: April, May and...", the third child is Mike.
Who acts: mum, third child · What happens: have, be · To what, where: three children, Mike
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 (mum, third child), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 mum | case |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Mike | punct |
| 3 | Mike | Mike | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mum | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Mike | case |
| 5 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 children | nummod |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 has | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 April | punct |
| 10 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 children | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 May | punct |
| 12 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 April | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Mike | cc |
| 14 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 13 and | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 and | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 and | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 child | det |
| 18 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 child | amod |
| 19 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Mike | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 Mike | cop |
| 21 | Mike | Mike | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 has | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 Mike | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Mike's mum | three children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the third child | Mike | 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:15.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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