Trick questions that catch quick thinkers, sentence 18

Two fathers and two sons can be just three people: a grandfather, his son and his grandson, because the middle one is both a father and a son.

Who acts: Two fathers, middle one · What happens: be · To what, where: three people, father

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 (Two fathers, middle one), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 fathers	nummod
2	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 people	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sons	cc
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sons	nummod
5	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fathers	conj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 people	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 people	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 three	advmod
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 people	nummod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 grandfather	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 grandfather	det
13	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 people	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 son	punct
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 son	nmod:poss
16	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grandfather	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 grandson	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 grandson	nmod:poss
19	grandson	grandson	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grandfather	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 father	punct
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 father	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 one	det
23	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 one	amod
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 father	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 father	cop
26	both	both	CCONJ	_	28 father	cc:preconj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 father	det
28	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 people	advcl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 son	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 son	det
31	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 father	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 people	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	is a	can	Two fathers and two sons	three people					tree rules
2	is a	present	the middle one	a father and a son					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:18.

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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