Olympiad: logic traps and if-then ★★★, sentence 6

Order puzzles need care too: "Ann is taller than Ben, and Cal is taller than Ben" tells you who is shortest, but not who is tallest.

Who acts: Order puzzles, Ann, Cal, taller · What happens: need, be, tell, not be · To what, where: care, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: logic traps and if-then ★★★» 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 (Order puzzles, Ann, Cal, taller), 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	Order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 puzzles	compound
2	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	3 need	advmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 need	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 taller	punct
8	Ann	Ann	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 taller	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 taller	cop
10	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 tells	nsubj
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 Ben	case
12	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 taller	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 taller	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 taller	cc
15	Cal	Cal	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 taller	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 taller	cop
17	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 taller	conj
18	than	than	ADP	_	19 Ben	case
19	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 taller	obl
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Ben	punct
21	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 need	parataxis
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 tells	iobj
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 shortest	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 shortest	cop
25	shortest	short	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 tells	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tallest	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 tallest	cc
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 tallest	advmod
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 tallest	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 tallest	cop
31	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 shortest	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 need	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	need	present	Order puzzles	care			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	Ann			than Ben; tall property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	Cal			than Ben; tall property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	present	taller		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	is	present				short property	tree rules
6	not is	present				tall property	tree rules

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:193-olympiad-logic-traps-and-if-then.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): 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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