Olympiad: tricky comprehension, sentence 1

Watch the little words: "not untrue" means true, so "It is not untrue that Sam did not go" means Sam did not go; and "but" can join two facts that both still count.

Who acts: you, It, Sam, both · What happens: watch, mean, not be, not go, join, count · To what, where: little words, two facts · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» of the english 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 (you, It, Sam, both), 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	Watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 words	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 words	amod
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Watch	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 untrue	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 untrue	advmod
8	untrue	untrue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 means	advcl
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 untrue	punct
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	parataxis
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 means	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 untrue	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	18 untrue	advmod
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 untrue	punct
15	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 untrue	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 untrue	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 untrue	advmod
18	untrue	untrue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Watch	parataxis
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 go	mark
20	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 go	nsubj
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 go	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 go	advmod
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 untrue	ccomp
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 untrue	punct
25	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 untrue	parataxis
26	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 go	nsubj
27	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 go	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 go	advmod
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 means	ccomp
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 join	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 join	cc
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 but	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 join	cc
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 join	punct
35	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 join	aux
36	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Watch	conj
37	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 facts	nummod
38	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 join	obj
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 count	obj
40	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	42 count	nsubj
41	still	still	ADV	_	42 count	advmod
42	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 facts	acl:relcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Watch	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	watch	imperative	you not said here	the little words			tree rules
2	mean	present				true property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	not is in a quote	present	It			untrue property	tree rules
4	not go in a quote	past · do-support	Sam				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not go	past · do-support	Sam				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	join	can	you not said here	two facts			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Patient
8	count	present	both	two facts	still		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme

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:english:060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.lesson:1.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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