--- title: Watch the little words: "not untrue" means true, so "It is not untru… — Olympiad: tricky comprehension · tree and pragmatics description: Watch the little words: "not untrue" means true, so "It is not untrue that Sam did not go" means Sam did not go; and "but" can join two facts that both still count. Who acts: you, It, Sam, both. 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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 (you, It, Sam, both), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.lesson:1 # text = Watch the little words: "not untrue" means true, so "It is not untrue that Sam did not go" means Sam did not go; and "but" can join two facts that both still count. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 untrue untrue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 advcl _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advcl 11 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 15 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 untrue untrue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 25 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 26 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 35 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 join join VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 37 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 facts fact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:nsubj 40 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 42 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 41 still still ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 count count VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | the little words | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | true *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | It | | | | | untrue *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | past · do-support | Sam | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **not** **go** | past · do-support | Sam | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **join** | can | you *not said here* | two facts | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Patient | | 8 | **count** | present | both | two facts | | | still | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | 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:english:060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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: tricky comprehension, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/0/) - next →: [Olympiad: tricky comprehension, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/)