Trick questions that catch quick thinkers, sentence 20
A dog on a 3-metre rope can reach a bone 5 metres away if the other end of the rope isn't tied to anything.
Who acts: dog · What happens: reach, not tie · To what, where: bone, other end
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 (dog), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reach | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 rope | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rope | det |
| 5 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 metre | nummod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 3 | punct |
| 7 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rope | compound |
| 8 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dog | nmod |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 reach | aux |
| 10 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bone | det |
| 12 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reach | obj |
| 13 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 metres | nummod |
| 14 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 away | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 reach | advmod |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 tied | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 end | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 end | amod |
| 19 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 rope | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rope | det |
| 22 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 end | nmod |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 tied | aux:pass |
| 24 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 tied | advmod |
| 25 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 reach | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 anything | case |
| 27 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 tied | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 reach | 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 | reach | can | a dog on a metre rope | a bone | away property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bone=Theme | |||
| 2 | not tie a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | the other end of the rope | to anything | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to anything=Co-Patient |
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:20.
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 ×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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