--- title: A question built so that every answer looks wrong is a trick, or loa… — Bets, dares and silly reasons · tree and pragmatics description: A question built so that every answer looks wrong is a trick, or loaded, question; it's fine to say "that's a trick question". Who acts: answer, question, that. 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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 (answer, question, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.lesson:11 # text = A question built so that every answer looks wrong is a trick, or loaded, question; it's fine to say "that's a trick question". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 3 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 8 mark _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 4 fixed _ _ 6 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 9 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 loaded load VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj 20 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 parataxis _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 csubj _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 25 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 nsubj _ _ 26 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 parataxis _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 31 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | participle | | a question *not said here* | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **look** | present | every answer | | | | | wrong *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **is a** | present | a question | a trick or question | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **load** | participle | a question *not said here* | | | | | | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | a trick question | | | | | 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:world:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.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): R5-strong ×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: [Bets, dares and silly reasons, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons/10/) - next →: [Bets, dares and silly reasons, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons/)