Trick questions that catch quick thinkers, sentence 7
The cure is slow and simple: read every word, ask "what did it actually say?", then answer.
Who acts: cure · What happens: be, read, ask, say, answer · To what, where: word · 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 (cure), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cure | det |
| 2 | cure | cure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slow | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 slow | cop |
| 4 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 simple | cc |
| 6 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 slow | conj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 read | punct |
| 8 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 slow | parataxis |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 word | det |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 read | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 read | conj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 say | punct |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 say | obj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 say | aux |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 say | nsubj |
| 17 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 18 say | advmod |
| 18 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 ask | ccomp |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 say | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 say | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 answer | punct |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 answer | advmod |
| 23 | answer | answer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 say | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slow | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the cure | slow property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the cure not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | read | infinitive | every word | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | past · do-support | cure | actually property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | answer speech: assert | infinitive | then | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:7.
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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