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title: Counting many tries is better evidence than remembering a few. — Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests · tree and pragmatics
description: Counting many tries is better evidence than remembering a few. Who acts: Counting. A sentence of the lesson «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests, sentence 18

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Counting many tries is better evidence than remembering a few.

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**Who acts:** Counting · **What happens:** count, be, remember · **To what, where:** many tries, better evidence, few

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» of the myths 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 (Counting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:029-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests.lesson:18
# text = Counting many tries is better evidence than remembering a few.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 029-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests.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	Counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tries	try	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	remembering	remember	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | gerund |  | many tries |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent try=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Counting | better evidence |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **remember** | gerund | Counting *not said here* | a few |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent few=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:myths:029-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests.lesson:18`.

**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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