--- title: Others hide a step everyone skips (in a dark room you light the matc… — Trick questions that catch quick thinkers · tree and pragmatics description: Others hide a step everyone skips (in a dark room you light the match first) or an idea nobody actually said (who said the dog's rope was tied to anything?). Who acts: Others, everyone, you, nobody. 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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 (Others, everyone, you, nobody), 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:6 # text = Others hide a step everyone skips (in a dark room you light the match first) or an idea nobody actually said (who said the dog's rope was 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 6 nsubj _ _ 6 skips skip VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 light light VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 match match NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 advmod _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 21 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 23 nsubj _ _ 22 actually actually ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 tied tie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 ccomp _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 32 obl _ _ 35 ? ? PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ _ 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | present | Others | a step or a idea | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Patient | | 2 | **skip** | present | everyone | a step or a idea *not said here* | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Agent | | 3 | **light** | present | you | the match | | a dark room | | first *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Product | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | nobody | a idea *not said here* | | | | actually *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **tie** | past · passive | | the dog's 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:6`. **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 ×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. 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