--- title: Two fathers and two sons can be just three people: a grandfather, hi… — Trick questions that catch quick thinkers · tree and pragmatics description: Two fathers and two sons can be just three people: a grandfather, his son and his grandson, because the middle one is both a father and a son. Who acts: Two fathers, middle one. 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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 (Two fathers, middle one), 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:18 # text = Two fathers and two sons can be just three people: a grandfather, his son and his grandson, because the middle one is both a father and a son. # 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 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 fathers father NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 cop _ _ 8 just just ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 grandfather grandfather NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nmod 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 grandson grandson NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 middle middle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 both both CCONJ CC _ 28 cc:preconj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 advcl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 | **is a** | can | Two fathers and two sons | three people | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | the middle one | a father and a son | | | | | 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:18`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Trick questions that catch quick think…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers/17/) - next →: [Trick questions that catch quick think…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers/)