Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★, sentence 3
Clues work like a detective's: one clue alone proves very little, but several clues pointing the same way make a good guess.
Who acts: Clues, one clue, several clues · What happens: work, prove, point, make · To what, where: little, same way, good 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 (Clues, one clue, several clues), 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 | Clues | clue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 work | nsubj |
| 2 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 detective | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 detective | det |
| 5 | detective | detective | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 work | obl |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 detective | case |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 proves | punct |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 clue | nummod |
| 9 | clue | clue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 proves | nsubj |
| 10 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 9 clue | advmod |
| 11 | proves | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 work | parataxis |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 little | advmod |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 proves | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 make | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 make | cc |
| 16 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 clues | amod |
| 17 | clues | clue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 make | nsubj |
| 18 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 clues | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 way | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 way | amod |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pointing | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 proves | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 guess | det |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 guess | amod |
| 25 | guess | guess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 work | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | Clues | like a detective | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | prove | present | one clue | little | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme | ||||
| 3 | point | gerund | several clues not said here | the same way | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | make | present | several clues | a good guess | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset guess=Product |
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:3.
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, R8-pos-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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