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title: Repeat it many times, write the results down, and be ready for three… — Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests · tree and pragmatics
description: Repeat it many times, write the results down, and be ready for three honest endings: "the saying is wrong", "it's partly right", or "even scientists aren't sure yet". Who acts: you, saying, scientists. A sentence of the lesson «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» of the myths course of Mova's
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# Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests, sentence 5

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Repeat it many times, write the results down, and be ready for three honest endings: "the saying is wrong", "it's partly right", or "even scientists aren't sure yet".

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**Who acts:** you, saying, scientists · **What happens:** repeat, write down, be, not be · **To what, where:** toast, results · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, saying, scientists), 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:5
# text = Repeat it many times, write the results down, and be ready for three honest endings: "the saying is wrong", "it's partly right", or "even scientists aren't sure yet".
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Repeat	repeat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	write	write	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	endings	ending	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	saying	saying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	_
35	even	even	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
37	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:parataxis
40	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30: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 | **repeat** | imperative | you *not said here* | toast |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **write down** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the results |  |  |  | down *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for three honest endings; ready *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the saying |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | saying |  |  |  |  | partly, right *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | scientists |  |  |  | yet | sure *property* | tree rules |

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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:5`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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