--- title: A real study found that Olympic fighters wearing red won slightly mo… — How would we know? Asking experts and spotting t… · tree and pragmatics description: A real study found that Olympic fighters wearing red won slightly more often, but the difference was small, only in some sports, and other studies argue about it; skill and training matter far more. Who acts: real study, Olympic fighters, difference, other studies. A sentence of the lesson «How woul --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/30-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [How would we know? Asking experts and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/30-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks/) / 8 # How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks, sentence 8 A real study found that Olympic fighters wearing red won slightly more often, but the difference was small, only in some sports, and other studies argue about it; skill and training matter far more. **Who acts:** real study, Olympic fighters, difference, other studies, skill · **What happens:** find, wear, won, be, argue, matter · **To what, where:** red, sports · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks» 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 (real study, Olympic fighters, difference, other studies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:030-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks.lesson:8 # text = A real study found that Olympic fighters wearing red won slightly more often, but the difference was small, only in some sports, and other studies argue about it; skill and training matter far more. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 030-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 study study NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 6 Olympic olympic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 fighters fighter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 8 wearing wear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 acl _ _ 9 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:amod 10 won won VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 11 slightly slightly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod 13 often often ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 difference difference NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ _ 24 sports sport NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 studies study NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 30 about about ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=33:cc 35 training training NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 36 matter matter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 37 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 38 advmod _ _ 38 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 36 advmod _ _ 39 . . 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 | **find** | past | a real study | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **wear** | gerund | Olympic fighters *not said here* | red | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent red=Source | | 3 | **won** | past | Olympic fighters | | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | past | the difference | | | some sports | | small *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | other studies | | | | | about difference | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | | 6 | **matter** | present | skill and training | | | | | | 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. 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