--- title: Clues work like a detective's: one clue alone proves very little, bu… — Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Clues work like a detective's: one clue alone proves very little, but several clues pointing the same way make a good guess. Who acts: Clues, one clue, several clues. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on/) / 3 # Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★, sentence 3 Clues work like a detective's: one clue alone proves very little, but several clues pointing the same way make a good guess. **Who acts:** Clues, one clue, several clues · **What happens:** work, prove, point, make · **To what, where:** little, same way, good guess This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» of the adult life 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 (Clues, one clue, several clues), 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:3 # text = Clues work like a detective's: one clue alone proves very little, but several clues pointing the same way make a good guess. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Clues clue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 detective detective NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 clue clue NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 alone alone ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod 11 proves prove VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 12 very very ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 16 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 clues clue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 18 pointing point VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advcl 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 guess guess NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | present | Clues | | | | | like a detective | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **prove** | present | one clue | little | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme | | 3 | **point** | gerund | several clues *not said here* | the same way | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | present | several clues | a good guess | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset guess=Product | 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:3`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on/2/) - next →: [Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on/)