--- title: When a text does not give a reason, a good reader can say what is po… — Olympiad: tricky comprehension · tree and pragmatics description: When a text does not give a reason, a good reader can say what is possible but does not claim it is certain. Who acts: text, good reader, reader. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/16/) [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/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Olympiad: tricky comprehension](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/) / 16 # Olympiad: tricky comprehension, sentence 16 When a text does not give a reason, a good reader can say what is possible but does not claim it is certain. **Who acts:** text, good reader, reader · **What happens:** not give, say, be, not claim · **To what, where:** reason · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» of the english 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 (text, good reader, reader), 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:16 # text = When a text does not give a reason, a good reader can say what is possible but does not claim it is certain. # 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): no change 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 6 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 text text NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 reader reader NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 15 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 ccomp _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 claim claim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 ccomp _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **give** | present · do-support | a text | a reason | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | a good reader | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | possible *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **claim** *speech: other* | present · do-support | a good reader *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | reader | | | | | certain *property* | tree rules | 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:16`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: tricky comprehension, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/15/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: death and…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/)