Trick questions that catch quick thinkers, sentence 17
Counting the moments instead of the gaps between them (or the other way round) is called the fence-post error.
Who acts: Counting · What happens: count, call · To what, where: fence post error · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Counting), 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 | Counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 called | csubj:pass |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moments | det |
| 3 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Counting | obj |
| 4 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 7 gaps | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 instead | fixed |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gaps | det |
| 7 | gaps | gap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Counting | obl |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gaps | nmod |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 way | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 way | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 way | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 way | amod |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gaps | conj |
| 15 | round | round | ADV | _ | 14 way | advmod |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 way | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 called | aux:pass |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 error | det |
| 20 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 error | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 error | punct |
| 22 | post | post | X | _ | 23 error | compound |
| 23 | error | error | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | 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 | count | gerund | moment | instead the gaps between gaps or the other way | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | call speech: assert | present · passive | Counting | the fence post error | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
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:17.
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, 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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