Sounds wrong, but is right, sentence 7
In the three-cups game, Leo's first pick is right only 1 time in 3, and his sister lifting an empty cup doesn't change that, so switching wins 2 times in 3.
Who acts: first pick, sister, Leo · What happens: be, lift, not change, switch, win, pick · To what, where: 1 time, 3, empty cup, that, cups game
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 (first pick, sister, Leo), 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 | _ | 6 game | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 game | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 cups | nummod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 three | punct |
| 5 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 game | compound |
| 6 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 change | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 game | punct |
| 8 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 pick | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Leo | case |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 pick | amod |
| 11 | pick | pick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 time | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 time | cop |
| 13 | right | right | ADV | _ | 16 time | advmod |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 time | advmod |
| 15 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 time | nummod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 change | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 3 | case |
| 18 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 time | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 change | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lifting | cc |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sister | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 change | nsubj |
| 23 | lifting | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 sister | acl |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 cup | det |
| 25 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 cup | amod |
| 26 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lifting | obj |
| 27 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 change | aux |
| 28 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 change | advmod |
| 29 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 change | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 wins | punct |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 wins | advmod |
| 33 | switching | switch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 wins | nsubj |
| 34 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 change | advcl |
| 35 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 times | nummod |
| 36 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 wins | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 3 | case |
| 38 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 wins | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 change | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Leo's first pick | 1 time | 3 | right property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | lift | gerund | Leo's sister not said here | a empty cup | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not change | present · do-support | Leo's sister | that | the cups game | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | |||
| 4 | switch | gerund | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | win | present | 3 | time | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in 3=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | pick | Leo | nom pick «cognition transitive»: poss=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:7.
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. 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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