--- title: A claim with "often" needs counting: drop the toast twenty times and… — Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: A claim with "often" needs counting: drop the toast twenty times and write each landing down, because memory keeps the butter-down ones and loses the rest. Who acts: claim, memory. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/37-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it/2/) [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/) / [Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/37-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it/) / 2 # Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★, sentence 2 A claim with "often" needs counting: drop the toast twenty times and write each landing down, because memory keeps the butter-down ones and loses the rest. **Who acts:** claim, memory · **What happens:** need, drop, write down, keep, lose · **To what, where:** counting, toast, landing, butter down ones, rest 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 (claim, memory), 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:2 # text = A claim with "often" needs counting: drop the toast twenty times and write each landing down, because memory keeps the butter-down ones and loses the rest. # 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 ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 claim claim NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 often often ADV RB _ 2 nmod _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 counting count NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 9 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 10 drop drop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:xcomp 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 toast toast NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 16 write write VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 17 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 landing landing NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 down down ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 25 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:compound 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 27 down down NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc 30 loses lose VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | a claim | counting | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot count=Theme | | 2 | **drop** | infinitive | | the toast | | | time | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toast=Theme | | 3 | **write down** | infinitive | | each landing | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent landing=Theme | | 4 | **keep** | present | memory | the butter down ones | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 5 | **lose** | present | memory *not said here* | the rest | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Eventuality | 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:2`. **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 ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: how could you check it? ★★★, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/37-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it/1/) - next →: [Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/37-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/37-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it/)