--- title: In "Mike's mum has three children: April, May and...", the third chi… — Trick questions that catch quick thinkers · tree and pragmatics description: In "Mike's mum has three children: April, May and...", the third child is Mike. Who acts: mum, third child. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers/15/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Trick questions that catch quick think…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers/) / 15 # Trick questions that catch quick thinkers, sentence 15 In "Mike's mum has three children: April, May and...", the third child is Mike. **Who acts:** mum, third child · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** three children, Mike 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 (mum, third child), 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:15 # text = In "Mike's mum has three children: April, May and...", the third child is Mike. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 3 Mike Mike PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl 6 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 10 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl:unmarked 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nmod:unmarked 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 14 ... ... PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 19 amod _ _ 19 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 Mike Mike PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Mike's mum | three children | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | the third child | Mike | | | | | 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:181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers.lesson:15`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Trick questions that catch quick think…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers/14/) - next →: [Trick questions that catch quick think…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers/)