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title: To be sure of something, think of the unluckiest draw: it takes as m… — Sure of several of the same colour · tree and pragmatics
description: To be sure of something, think of the unluckiest draw: it takes as many as it can without the wish coming true. Who acts: it, wish. A sentence of the lesson «Sure of several of the same colour» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Sure of several of the same colour, sentence 0

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To be sure of something, think of the unluckiest draw: it takes as many as it can without the wish coming true.

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**Who acts:** it, wish · **What happens:** be, think, take, come · **To what, where:** many

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sure of several of the same colour» of the lessons 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 (it, wish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:181-pigeonhole-same-colour.lesson:0
# text = To be sure of something, think of the unluckiest draw: it takes as many as it can without the wish coming true.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 181-pigeonhole-same-colour.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	To	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	unluckiest	unlucky	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	draw	draw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
20	without	without	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
23	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of something; sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of the unluckiest draw | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | present | it | many |  |  |  | without the wish | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | gerund | the wish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | true *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:lessons:181-pigeonhole-same-colour.lesson:0`.

**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/).

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