--- title: A dog on a 3-metre rope can reach a bone 5 metres away if the other… — Trick questions that catch quick thinkers · tree and pragmatics description: A dog on a 3-metre rope can reach a bone 5 metres away if the other end of the rope isn't tied to anything. Who acts: dog. 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/20/) [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/) / 20 # Trick questions that catch quick thinkers, sentence 20 A dog on a 3-metre rope can reach a bone 5 metres away if the other end of the rope isn't tied to anything. **Who acts:** dog · **What happens:** reach, not tie · **To what, where:** bone, other end 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 (dog), 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:20 # text = A dog on a 3-metre rope can reach a bone 5 metres away if the other end of the rope isn't tied to anything. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 metre metre NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl:unmarked 15 away away ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod 16 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 24 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 tied tie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 advcl _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 25 obl _ _ 28 . . 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 | **reach** | can | a dog on a metre rope | a bone | | | | away *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bone=Theme | | 2 | **not** **tie** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | the other end of the rope | | | | to anything | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to anything=Co-Patient | 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:20`. **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 ×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…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers/19/) - next →: [Sounds wrong, but is right, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers/)