--- title: The trick is never to trust the loudest voice; check each claim agai… — Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: The trick is never to trust the loudest voice; check each claim against what you already know, then count, turn or line things up to be sure. Who acts: trick, you. 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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 (trick, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.lesson:1 # text = The trick is never to trust the loudest voice; check each claim against what you already know, then count, turn or line things up to be sure. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 trust trust VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 loudest loud ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 amod _ _ 9 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 12 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 claim claim NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 against against ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nmod _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 already already ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ _ 21 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 line line VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=23:conj 26 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 30 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 advcl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | the trick | | | | | trust *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **check** | infinitive | the trick *not said here* | each claim | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Theme | | 3 | **know** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **count** | infinitive | the trick *not said here* | | | | then | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **turn** | infinitive | the trick *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **line up** | infinitive | the trick *not said here* | things | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Destination | | 7 | **is** | to-infinitive | the trick *not said here* | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:myths:036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.lesson:1`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true/0/) - next →: [Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true/)