Sounds wrong, but is right, sentence 6

Chance surprises us too: a class of 30 has more than 400 different pairs of people, and any pair might match, so two people sharing a birthday is more likely than not.

Who acts: Chance, class, pair, two people, sharing · What happens: surprise, have, match, share, be · To what, where: us, 400 different pairs, 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 (Chance, class, pair, two 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	Chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 surprises	nsubj
2	surprises	surprise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 surprises	obj
4	too	too	ADV	_	2 surprises	advmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 class	det
7	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 30	case
9	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 class	nmod
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 surprises	conj
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	13 400	advmod
12	than	than	ADP	_	11 more	fixed
13	400	400	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 pairs	nummod
14	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pairs	amod
15	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 has	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 people	case
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pairs	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 match	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 match	cc
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 pair	det
21	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 match	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 match	aux
23	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 has	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 likely	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	33 likely	advmod
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 people	nummod
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sharing	nsubj
28	sharing	share	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 likely	csubj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 birthday	det
30	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sharing	obj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 likely	cop
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 likely	advmod
33	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 match	conj
34	than	than	SCONJ	_	35 not	mark
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 likely	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 surprises	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	surprise	present	Chance	us		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer
2	have	present	a class of 30	400 different pairs of people		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient
3	match	might	any pair			vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	share	gerund	two people	a birthday		tree rules
5	is	present	sharing		likely 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:world:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.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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