How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks, sentence 8

A real study found that Olympic fighters wearing red won slightly more often, but the difference was small, only in some sports, and other studies argue about it; skill and training matter far more.

Who acts: real study, Olympic fighters, difference, other studies, skill · What happens: find, wear, won, be, argue, matter · To what, where: red, sports · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks» 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 (real study, Olympic fighters, difference, other studies), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 study	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 study	amod
3	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 won	mark
6	Olympic	olympic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fighters	amod
7	fighters	fighter	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 won	nsubj
8	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 fighters	acl
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wearing	obj
10	won	won	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	ccomp
11	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 often	advmod
13	often	often	ADV	_	10 won	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 small	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 small	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 difference	det
17	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 small	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 small	cop
19	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 won	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sports	punct
21	only	only	ADV	_	24 sports	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 sports	case
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 sports	det
24	sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 small	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 argue	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 argue	cc
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 studies	amod
28	studies	study	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 argue	nsubj
29	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 small	parataxis
30	about	about	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 argue	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 skill	punct
33	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 matter	nsubj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 training	cc
35	training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 skill	conj
36	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 found	parataxis
37	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 more	advmod
38	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 matter	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	a real study				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	wear	gerund	Olympic fighters not said here	red			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent red=Source
3	won	past	Olympic fighters			often property	tree rules
4	is	past	the difference		some sports	small property	tree rules
5	argue speech: disagree	present	other studies			about difference	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
6	matter	present	skill and training				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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:030-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks.lesson:8.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3. 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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