Trick questions that catch quick thinkers, sentence 19
In a dark room with one match, you light the match first.
Who acts: you · What happens: light · To what, where: match, dark room
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), 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 | _ | 4 room | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 room | det |
| 3 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 room | amod |
| 4 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 light | obl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 match | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 match | nummod |
| 7 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 room | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 room | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 light | nsubj |
| 10 | light | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 match | det |
| 12 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 light | obj |
| 13 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 light | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 light | 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 | light | present | you | the match | a dark room with one match | first property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Product |
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:19.
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): no change. 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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