Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests, sentence 18
Counting many tries is better evidence than remembering a few.
Who acts: Counting · What happens: count, be, remember · To what, where: many tries, better evidence, few
This is a sentence of the lesson «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» of the myths 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 (Counting), 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 | Counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 evidence | csubj |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tries | amod |
| 3 | tries | try | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Counting | obj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 evidence | cop |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 evidence | amod |
| 6 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 8 remembering | mark |
| 8 | remembering | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 evidence | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 few | det |
| 10 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 remembering | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 evidence | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | gerund | many tries | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent try=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Counting | better evidence | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | remember | gerund | Counting not said here | a few | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent few=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:myths:029-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests.lesson:18.
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): no change. 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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