--- title: "The old man the boat" is a real sentence: "the old" means old peopl… — Olympiad: tricky comprehension · tree and pragmatics description: "The old man the boat" is a real sentence: "the old" means old people, and "man" is a verb meaning to work or crew the boat. Who acts: old man, old, man, verb. 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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 (old man, old, man, verb), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.lesson:11 # text = "The old man the boat" is a real sentence: "the old" means old people, and "man" is a verb meaning to work or crew the boat. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 nsubj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 18 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 28 meaning mean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 acl _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 crew crew VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the old man | a real sentence | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | the old | old people | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic | | 3 | **is a** | present | man | a verb | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | gerund | a verb *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **work** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a verb *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **crew** | infinitive | a verb *not said here* | the boat | | | | | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Beneficiary | 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:060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.lesson:11`. **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, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: tricky comprehension, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/10/) - next →: [Olympiad: tricky comprehension, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/)