Sounds wrong, but is right, sentence 11

In a class of 30 it is more likely than not that two people share a birthday, because there are more than 400 different pairs of people who could match.

Who acts: it, two people, 400 different pairs, people · What happens: be, not share, match · To what, where: class, birthday

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds wrong, but is right» of the world 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 (it, two people, 400 different pairs, people), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 class	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 class	det
3	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 likely	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 30	case
5	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 class	nmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 likely	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 likely	cop
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 likely	advmod
9	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	15 share	mark
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 share	advmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 share	mark
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 people	nummod
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 share	nsubj
15	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 likely	ccomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 birthday	det
17	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 share	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 are	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 are	mark
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 are	expl
21	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 likely	advcl
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	24 400	advmod
23	than	than	ADP	_	22 more	fixed
24	400	400	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 pairs	nummod
25	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 pairs	amod
26	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 are	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 people	case
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 pairs	nmod
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 match	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 match	aux
31	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 people	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 likely	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	it		a class of 30	likely property	tree rules
2	not share	present	two people	a birthday			tree rules
3	does	present	400 different pairs of people		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	match	could	people				vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:world:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.lesson:11.

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.

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