--- title: Einstein did not fail maths; he was very good at it as a boy, and th… — Explorers, scientists and inventors · tree and pragmatics description: Einstein did not fail maths; he was very good at it as a boy, and the myth may come from a failed entrance exam he took two years early, where he did well in maths and physics but not in other subjects. Who acts: Einstein, myth. 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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 (Einstein, myth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:020-explorers-scientists-and-inventors.lesson:10 # text = Einstein did not fail maths; he was very good at it as a boy, and the myth may come from a failed entrance exam he took two years early, where he did well in maths and physics but not in other subjects. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 020-explorers-scientists-and-inventors.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Einstein Einstein PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 fail fail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 maths math NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 very very ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 11 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 failed fail VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ _ 25 entrance entrance NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 exam exam NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:obl 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advcl 29 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 35 advmod _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 36 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 maths math NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 physics physics NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 41 but but CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 42 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 subjects subject NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 conj _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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** **fail** | past · do-support | Einstein | maths | | | | as a boy | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent math=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** | past | Einstein | | | Earth | | good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **come** | may | the myth | | | a failed entrance exam | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from exam=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **fail** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **take** | past | myth | a failed entrance exam *not said here* | | | | early *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exam=Theme | | 6 | **do** | past | myth | | | maths and physics but other subjects | | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. 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