Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★, sentence 6

A survey only tells you about the people it asked; asking just one kind of person, like the pizza queue, gives a lopsided answer.

Who acts: survey · What happens: tell, ask, give · To what, where: you, people, one kind, lopsided answer · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (survey), 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 survey	det
2	survey	survey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tells	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 tells	advmod
4	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tells	iobj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 people	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 people	det
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tells	obl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	nsubj
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 people	acl:relcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 asking	punct
12	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tells	parataxis
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 one	advmod
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 kind	nummod
15	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asking	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 person	case
17	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kind	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 queue	punct
19	like	like	ADP	_	22 queue	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 queue	det
21	pizza	pizza	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 queue	compound
22	queue	queue	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kind	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gives	punct
24	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 asking	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 answer	det
26	lopsided	lopsided	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 answer	amod
27	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gives	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	a survey		you	about the people	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient about people=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	past	survey	the people not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
3	ask speech: ask	gerund		one kind of person		like the pizza queue	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kind=Recipient
4	give	present		a lopsided answer			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=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:politics:042-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick.lesson:6.

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): R5-strong ×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.

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