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title: A fair test changes only ONE thing: same seeds, same soil, same wate… — Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests · tree and pragmatics
description: A fair test changes only ONE thing: same seeds, same soil, same water, same window, and only one tray gets talked to. Who acts: fair test. 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 
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# Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests, sentence 2

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A fair test changes only ONE thing: same seeds, same soil, same water, same window, and only one tray gets talked to.

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**Who acts:** fair test · **What happens:** change, talk · **To what, where:** ONE thing, one tray

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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 (fair test), 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:2
# text = A fair test changes only ONE thing: same seeds, same soil, same water, same window, and only one tray gets talked to.
# 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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
2	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod
3	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound
4	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	ONE	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	tray	tray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	gets	get	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	talked	talk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7: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 | **change** | present | a fair test | ONE thing |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 2 | **talk** | present · passive |  | one tray |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Patient |

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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:2`.

**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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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