Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★, sentence 14

One clue is a guess; several clues pointing the same way make a better guess, but the only way to really know is to ask kindly.

Who acts: One clue, several clues, only way · What happens: be, point, make, know · To what, where: guess, same way, better guess

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★» of the reflection 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 (One clue, several clues, only way), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 clue	nummod
2	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guess	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 guess	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 guess	det
5	guess	guess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 clues	punct
7	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 clues	amod
8	clues	clue	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 make	nsubj
9	pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 clues	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 way	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 way	amod
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pointing	obj
13	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 guess	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 guess	det
15	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 guess	amod
16	guess	guess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ask	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 ask	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 way	det
20	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 way	amod
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ask	nsubj:outer
22	to	to	PART	_	24 know	mark
23	really	really	ADV	_	24 know	advmod
24	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 way	acl
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 ask	cop
26	to	to	PART	_	27 ask	mark
27	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 guess	conj
28	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	27 ask	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 guess	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	One clue	a guess		tree rules
2	point	gerund	several clues not said here	the same way		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
3	make	present	several clues	a better guess		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset guess=Product
4	know	to-infinitive	the only way not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	present	the only way		ask, kindly property	tree rules

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:reflection:031-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times.lesson:14.

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): no change. 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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