--- title: In the riddle "Brothers and sisters I have none, but this man's fath… — Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words · tree and pragmatics description: In the riddle "Brothers and sisters I have none, but this man's father is my father's son", "my father's son" can only be the speaker himself, so the man in the photo is his son. Who acts: Picture Gran, father, son, man. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Picture Gran, father, son, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:057-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words.lesson:13 # text = In the riddle "Brothers and sisters I have none, but this man's father is my father's son", "my father's son" can only be the speaker himself, so the man in the photo is his son. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 057-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 riddle riddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 Brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 dislocated _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 10 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 13 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 14 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 18 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 25 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 31 only only ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 cop _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 speaker speaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 35 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 34 nmod:unmarked _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 photo photo NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:conj 46 . . PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Picture Gran in Cork *= gran* | none | | the riddle | | Brothers and sisters *dislocated* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this man's father | my father's son | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | can | my father's son | the speaker | | | | speaker *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | the man in the photo | man's son | | | | | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:english:057-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words.lesson:13`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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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