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title: If you overtake the runner in second place, you take second place; t… — Trick questions that catch quick thinkers · tree and pragmatics
description: If you overtake the runner in second place, you take second place; the leader is still ahead of you. Who acts: you, leader. A sentence of the lesson «Trick questions that catch quick thinkers» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Trick questions that catch quick thinkers, sentence 10

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If you overtake the runner in second place, you take second place; the leader is still ahead of you.

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**Who acts:** you, leader · **What happens:** overtake, take, be · **To what, where:** runner, second place

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Trick questions that catch quick thinkers» of the world 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, leader), 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:10
# text = If you overtake the runner in second place, you take second place; the leader is still ahead of you.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	overtake	overtake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	runner	runner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	3	parataxis	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overtake** | infinitive | you | the runner |  | second place |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | present | you | second place |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | the leader |  |  |  | still | of you; ahead *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:10`.

**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. **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/).

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