--- title: And a test must be able to say "no": if Gran only counts the matches… — Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: And a test must be able to say "no": if Gran only counts the matches her lucky socks won, the socks can never fail, so the test proves nothing. Who acts: test, Gran, lucky socks, socks. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★, sentence 4 And a test must be able to say "no": if Gran only counts the matches her lucky socks won, the socks can never fail, so the test proves nothing. **Who acts:** test, Gran, lucky socks, socks · **What happens:** be, say, count, win, not fail, prove · **To what, where:** no, matches, nothing · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (test, Gran, lucky socks, socks), 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:4 # text = And a test must be able to say "no": if Gran only counts the matches her lucky socks won, the socks can never fail, so the test proves nothing. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 cop _ _ 6 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 no no NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 13 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 Gran Gran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 only only ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 counts count VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 matches match NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 lucky lucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 socks sock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 socks sock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 fail fail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 proves prove VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 34 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | must | a test | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | a test *not said here* | no | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic | | 3 | **count** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Gran | the matches | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Theme | | 4 | **win** | past | Gran's lucky socks | the matches *not said here* | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Eventuality | | 5 | **not** **fail** | can | the socks | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **prove** | present | the test | nothing | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | 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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