--- title: One clue alone proves little; several clues pointing the same way ma… — Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: One clue alone proves little; several clues pointing the same way make a good guess, and a guess still needs checking before it is treated as a fact. Who acts: One clue, several clues, guess. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One clue, several clues, guess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.lesson:12 # text = One clue alone proves little; several clues pointing the same way make a good guess, and a guess still needs checking before it is treated as a fact. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 clue clue NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 alone alone ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod 4 proves prove VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obj _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 clues clue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 9 pointing point VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 guess guess NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 guess guess NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 still still ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 checking check VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 xcomp _ _ 24 before before SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 treated treat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advcl 28 as as ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **prove** | present | One clue | little | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme | | 2 | **point** | gerund | several clues *not said here* | the same way | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** | present | several clues | a good guess | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset guess=Product | | 4 | **need** | present | a guess | | | | still | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **check** *not said to happen* | gerund | a guess *not said here* | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **treat** | present · passive | | guess | | | | as a fact | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as fact=Attribute | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.lesson:12`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on/11/) - next →: [Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on/)