--- title: A question asking what is NOT stated wants the option the text never… — Olympiad: tricky comprehension · tree and pragmatics description: A question asking what is NOT stated wants the option the text never says, such as "every day" when the text only says "on Mondays". Who acts: question, text. 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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 (question, text), 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:14 # text = A question asking what is NOT stated wants the option the text never says, such as "every day" when the text only says "on Mondays". # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 acl _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 6 NOT not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 stated state VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 ccomp _ _ 8 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 option option NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 text text NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 20 case _ _ 17 as as ADP IN _ 16 fixed _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 19 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 20 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 text text NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 only only ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 28 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Mondays Monday PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | a question *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **state** *speech: other* | present · passive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | | 3 | **want** | present | a question | the option | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot option=Theme | | 4 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present | the text | the option *not said here* | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent option=Topic | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the text | | | | monday | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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](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:14`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: tricky comprehension, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/13/) - next →: [Olympiad: tricky comprehension, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/)