Sounds wrong, but is right, sentence 15

With socks of only two colours, 3 socks are always enough to be sure of a matching pair; grown-ups call this the pigeonhole principle.

Who acts: 3 socks, grown ups · What happens: be, match, grow, call · To what, where: this · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (3 socks, grown ups), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 socks	case
2	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 enough	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 colours	case
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 two	advmod
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 colours	nummod
6	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 socks	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 socks	punct
8	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 socks	nummod
9	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 enough	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 enough	cop
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 enough	advmod
12	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 call	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	15 sure	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 sure	cop
15	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 enough	advcl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 pair	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pair	det
18	matching	match	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 pair	amod
19	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sure	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 grown	punct
21	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 ups	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 ups	punct
23	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 call	nsubj
24	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 call	obj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 principle	det
27	pigeonhole	pigeonhole	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 principle	compound
28	principle	principle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 call	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 enough	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	3 socks		with socks of two colours; always, enough property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	3 socks not said here		of a matching pair; sure property	tree rules
3	match	gerund				vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	call speech: assert	present	grown ups	this		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient

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:15.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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