Sounds wrong, but is right, sentence 9

In the three-cups game, if the helper knows where the sweet is and always lifts an empty cup you didn't pick, switching wins 2 times out of 3.

Who acts: helper, you, switching · What happens: know, be, lift, not pick, switch, win · To what, where: empty cup, cups game · 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 (helper, you, switching), 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	28 wins	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 game	punct
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 knows	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 helper	det
10	helper	helper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knows	nsubj
11	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 wins	advcl
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 is	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sweet	det
14	sweet	sweet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 where	nsubj
15	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 knows	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lifts	cc
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 lifts	advmod
18	lifts	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 knows	conj
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cup	det
20	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cup	amod
21	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lifts	obj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 pick	nsubj
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 pick	aux
24	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 pick	advmod
25	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 cup	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 switching	punct
27	switching	switch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 wins	csubj
28	wins	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 times	nummod
30	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 wins	obl:unmarked
31	out	out	ADP	_	33 3	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 3	case
33	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 times	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 wins	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know a condition, not said to happen	present	the helper					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be	present						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lift	present	the helper not said here	a empty cup			always property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme
4	not pick	past · do-support	you	a empty cup not said here				vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Patient
5	switch	gerund						vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	win	present	switching		the cups game	time		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in game=Eventuality

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:9.

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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