--- title: To catch one, ask two questions: when does the scene happen, and whe… — Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: To catch one, ask two questions: when does the scene happen, and when did this thing first appear? Who acts: you, scene, thing. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/) / 2 # Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★, sentence 2 To catch one, ask two questions: when does the scene happen, and when did this thing first appear? **Who acts:** you, scene, thing · **What happens:** catch, ask, happen, appear · **To what, where:** one, two questions This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» of the history 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 (you, scene, thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:087-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism.lesson:2 # text = To catch one, ask two questions: when does the scene happen, and when did this thing first appear? # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 087-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 10 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 scene scene NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 17 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 18 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obj 20 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 21 advmod _ _ 21 appear appear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 22 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **catch** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | one | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | two questions | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 3 | **happen** | present · do-support | the scene | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **appear** | past · do-support | this thing | | | | | first *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:history:087-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism.lesson:2`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/1/) - next →: [Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/)