--- title: Trick questions are built to catch quick thinkers: they get you star… — Trick questions that catch quick thinkers · tree and pragmatics description: Trick questions are built to catch quick thinkers: they get you starting the sum before you have read all the words. Who acts: questions, you. 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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 (questions, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers.lesson:0 # text = Trick questions are built to catch quick thinkers: they get you starting the sum before you have read all the words. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers.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 1 Trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp 7 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 thinkers thinker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 starting start VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 xcomp _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 sum sum NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 before before SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 read read VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 20 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 22 det:predet _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **build** | present · passive | | Trick questions | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **catch** | to-infinitive | | quick thinkers | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thinker=Theme | | 3 | **get** | present | questions *= question* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **start** | gerund | you | the sum | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Eventuality | | 5 | **read** | present · perfect | you | all words | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | 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:181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers.lesson:0`. **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. **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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