Trick questions that catch quick thinkers, sentence 5

Some hide a false idea inside the question: roosters don't lay eggs and electric trains make no smoke, so before you answer "which way?", check that the question makes sense.

Who acts: Some, roosters, electric trains, you, question · What happens: hide, not lay, make, answer, check · To what, where: false idea, question, eggs, smoke, way, sense

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 (Some, roosters, electric trains, 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 hide	nsubj
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 idea	det
4	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 idea	amod
5	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hide	obj
6	inside	inside	ADP	_	8 question	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 question	det
8	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hide	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 hide	punct
10	roosters	rooster	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lay	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 lay	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 lay	advmod
13	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hide	parataxis
14	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lay	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 make	cc
16	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 trains	amod
17	trains	train	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 make	nsubj
18	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 lay	conj
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 smoke	det
20	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 make	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 check	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	32 check	advmod
23	before	before	SCONJ	_	25 answer	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 answer	nsubj
25	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 check	advcl
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 way	punct
27	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	28 way	det
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 answer	obj
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	28 way	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 way	punct
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 check	punct
32	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hide	parataxis
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 makes	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 question	det
35	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 makes	nsubj
36	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 check	ccomp
37	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 makes	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hide	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=suggest, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hide	present	Some	a false idea	the question	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent idea=Patient inside question=Location
2	not lay	present · do-support	roosters	eggs		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
3	make	present	electric trains	no smoke		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material smoke=Product
4	answer speech: assert	present	you	which way		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
5	check	infinitive				tree rules
6	make	present	the question	sense		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sense=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:5.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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