Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★, sentence 4

And a test must be able to say "no": if Gran only counts the matches her lucky socks won, the socks can never fail, so the test proves nothing.

Who acts: test, Gran, lucky socks, socks · What happens: be, say, count, win, not fail, prove · To what, where: no, matches, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (test, Gran, lucky socks, socks), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 able	cc
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 test	det
3	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 able	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 able	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 able	cop
6	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 say	mark
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 able	xcomp
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 no	punct
10	no	no	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 no	punct
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 fail	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 counts	mark
14	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 counts	nsubj
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 counts	advmod
16	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 fail	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 matches	det
18	matches	match	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 counts	obj
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 socks	nmod:poss
20	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 socks	amod
21	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 won	nsubj
22	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 matches	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 counts	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 socks	det
25	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 fail	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 fail	aux
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 fail	advmod
28	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 able	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 proves	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	33 proves	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 test	det
32	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 proves	nsubj
33	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 fail	advcl
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	33 proves	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 able	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	must	a test		able property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	a test not said here	no		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic
3	count a condition, not said to happen	present	Gran	the matches		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Theme
4	win	past	Gran's lucky socks	the matches not said here		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Eventuality
5	not fail	can	the socks			vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	prove	present	the test	nothing		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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:037-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it.lesson:4.

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): R7-rel-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.

See the release 0.4.

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