--- title: A claim with "never", "always" or "only" is the easiest to crack: on… — Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: A claim with "never", "always" or "only" is the easiest to crack: one balanced egg on an ordinary day in May breaks "eggs only balance on the equinox". Who acts: claim, one balanced egg, eggs. 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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 (claim, one balanced egg, eggs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:037-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it.lesson:1 # text = A claim with "never", "always" or "only" is the easiest to crack: one balanced egg on an ordinary day in May breaks "eggs only balance on the equinox". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 037-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 claim claim NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 2 acl _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 9 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 5 conj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 only only ADV RB _ 9 conj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 easiest easy ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 0 root _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 crack crack VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 22 balanced balance VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 amod _ _ 23 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:NNS:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 32 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 33 only only ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 balance balance VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 ccomp _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 equinox equinox NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 17 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 | **is** | present | a claim | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **crack** | to-infinitive | a claim *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **balance** | participle | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **break** | present | one balanced egg on a ordinary day in May | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **balance** *in a quote* | infinitive | eggs | | | the equinox | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on equinox=Location | 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:037-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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. 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