Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★, sentence 12

One clue alone proves little; several clues pointing the same way make a good guess, and a guess still needs checking before it is treated as a fact.

Who acts: One clue, several clues, guess · What happens: prove, point, make, need, check, treat · To what, where: little, same way, good guess, guess

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» of the adult life 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 (One clue, several clues, guess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 clue	nummod
2	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 proves	nsubj
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 clue	advmod
4	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 proves	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 clues	punct
7	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 clues	amod
8	clues	clue	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 make	nsubj
9	pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 clues	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 way	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 way	amod
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pointing	obl:unmarked
13	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 proves	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 guess	det
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 guess	amod
16	guess	guess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 needs	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 needs	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 guess	det
20	guess	guess	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 needs	nsubj
21	still	still	ADV	_	22 needs	advmod
22	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 proves	conj
23	checking	check	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 needs	xcomp
24	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 treated	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 treated	nsubj:pass
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 treated	aux:pass
27	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 needs	advcl
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 fact	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 fact	det
30	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 treated	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 proves	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	One clue	little			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme
2	point	gerund	several clues not said here	the same way			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	present	several clues	a good guess			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset guess=Product
4	need	present	a guess		still		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	check not said to happen	gerund	a guess not said here				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	treat	present · passive		guess		as a fact	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as fact=Attribute

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, 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:adult-life:061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.lesson:12.

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, 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.

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