Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★, sentence 1

Numbers can shout: "bike thefts up 100%!" sounds like a crime wave, but in a village it may mean 1 theft last year and 2 this year, just one more bike.

Who acts: Numbers, job · What happens: shout, sound, mean · To what, where: bike thefts, 1 theft

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★» of the politics 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 (Numbers, job), 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	Numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shout	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 shout	aux
3	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 thefts	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 thefts	punct
6	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thefts	compound
7	thefts	theft	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shout	obl
8	up	up	ADV	_	9 100	advmod
9	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 %	nummod
10	%	%	SYM	Number=Sing	3 shout	obj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 shout	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 sounds	punct
13	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shout	conj
14	like	like	ADP	_	17 wave	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 wave	det
16	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wave	compound
17	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sounds	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mean	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 mean	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 village	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 village	det
22	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mean	obl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 mean	nsubj
24	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 mean	aux
25	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 shout	conj
26	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 theft	nummod
27	theft	theft	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mean	obj
28	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 year	amod
29	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mean	obl:unmarked
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 2	cc
31	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 theft	conj
32	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 year	det
33	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mean	obl:unmarked
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 bike	punct
35	just	just	ADV	_	38 bike	advmod
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 bike	nummod
37	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 bike	amod
38	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mean	parataxis
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shout	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	can	Numbers	bike thefts			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent %=Topic
2	sound	present	Numbers not said here			like a crime wave	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	mean	may	job	1 theft	year	in a village	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot theft=Theme in village=Attribute

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:politics:042-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick.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): R1-cc-next ×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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