Trick questions that catch quick thinkers, sentence 6
Others hide a step everyone skips (in a dark room you light the match first) or an idea nobody actually said (who said the dog's rope was tied to anything?).
Who acts: Others, everyone, you, nobody · What happens: hide, skip, light, say, tie · To what, where: step, match, dark room, idea, rope · 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 (Others, everyone, you, nobody), 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 | Others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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 | 4 step | det |
| 4 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hide | obj |
| 5 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 skips | nsubj |
| 6 | skips | skip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 step | acl:relcl |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 room | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 room | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 room | det |
| 10 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 room | amod |
| 11 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 light | obl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 light | nsubj |
| 13 | light | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hide | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 match | det |
| 15 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 light | obj |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 light | advmod |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 light | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 idea | cc |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 idea | det |
| 20 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 step | conj |
| 21 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 said | nsubj |
| 22 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 23 said | advmod |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 idea | acl:relcl |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | ccomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 dog | det |
| 28 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rope | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 dog | case |
| 30 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 tied | aux:pass |
| 32 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 said | ccomp |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 anything | case |
| 34 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 32 tied | obl |
| 35 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 32 tied | punct |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | Others | a step or a idea | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Patient | ||||
| 2 | skip | present | everyone | a step or a idea not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Agent | ||||
| 3 | light | present | you | the match | a dark room | first property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Product | ||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | nobody | a idea not said here | actually property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | tie | past · passive | the dog's 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:6.
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, R6-punct-agree ×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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