--- title: Watch the talk around the numbers: "the queue was a mile long" is no… — Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Watch the talk around the numbers: "the queue was a mile long" is not a number to use, "not ideal" may mean a deal is worse than it looks, and when someone corrects themselves the last number counts. Who acts: you, queue, ideal, deal. 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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, queue, ideal, deal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:041-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till.lesson:4 # text = Watch the talk around the numbers: "the queue was a mile long" is not a number to use, "not ideal" may mean a deal is worse than it looks, and when someone corrects themselves the last number counts. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 041-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till.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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 around around ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 queue queue NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det 13 mile mile NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advcl 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 ideal ideal NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 ccomp _ _ 33 than than SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 39 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 40 nsubj _ _ 40 corrects correct VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 41 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 40 obj _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 counts count VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 advcl _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=warn | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | the talk | | the numbers | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Theme | | 2 | **not** **is a** | past | the queue | a long number | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **use** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | may | ideal | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | a deal | | | | | bad *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **look** | present | deal | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **correct** *speech: disagree* | present | someone | numbers *= number* | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | | 8 | **count** | present | the last number | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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:money:041-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till.lesson:4`. **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, R6-punct-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. 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