Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★, sentence 2

A claim with "often" needs counting: drop the toast twenty times and write each landing down, because memory keeps the butter-down ones and loses the rest.

Who acts: claim, memory · What happens: need, drop, write down, keep, lose · To what, where: counting, toast, landing, butter down ones, rest

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★» 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 (claim, memory), 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	2 claim	det
2	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 needs	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 often	case
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 often	punct
5	often	often	ADV	_	2 claim	nmod
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 often	punct
7	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	counting	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 needs	obj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 drop	punct
10	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 needs	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 toast	det
12	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drop	obj
13	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 times	nummod
14	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 drop	obl:unmarked
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 write	cc
16	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 drop	conj
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 landing	det
18	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 write	obj
19	down	down	ADP	_	16 write	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 keeps	punct
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 keeps	mark
22	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 keeps	nsubj
23	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 write	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ones	det
25	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ones	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 down	punct
27	down	down	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ones	compound
28	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 keeps	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 loses	cc
30	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 keeps	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 rest	det
32	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 loses	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 needs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	need	present	a claim	counting		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot count=Theme
2	drop	infinitive		the toast	time	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toast=Theme
3	write down	infinitive		each landing		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent landing=Theme
4	keep	present	memory	the butter down ones		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
5	lose	present	memory not said here	the rest		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Eventuality

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:037-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it.lesson:2.

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 ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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