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title: Headlines like "Chocolate makes you clever!" often come from a small… — Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Headlines like "Chocolate makes you clever!" often come from a small study, sometimes on animals; ask who was tested, how many, and compared with what. Who acts: Chocolate, Headlines, you. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★» of the myths course of Mova's primary school w
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# Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★, sentence 18

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Headlines like "Chocolate makes you clever!" often come from a small study, sometimes on animals; ask who was tested, how many, and compared with what.

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**Who acts:** Chocolate, Headlines, you · **What happens:** make, come, ask, test, compare · **To what, where:** you, small study · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★» 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 (Chocolate, Headlines, you), 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:18
# text = Headlines like "Chocolate makes you clever!" often come from a small study, sometimes on animals; ask who was tested, how many, and compared with what.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×3
1	Headlines	headline	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
2	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
4	Chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
10	often	often	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
21	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	tested	test	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	ccomp	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
27	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21: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 | **make** *in a quote* | present | Chocolate | you |  |  |  | clever *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product |
| 2 | **come** | present | Headlines |  |  | a small study |  | on animals; often *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from study=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **test** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **compare** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with what=Co-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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**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 ×3. **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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