--- title: A fair test changes only one thing, keeps everything else the same,… — Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: A fair test changes only one thing, keeps everything else the same, and is repeated many times with the results written down. Who acts: fair test. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★, sentence 9 A fair test changes only one thing, keeps everything else the same, and is repeated many times with the results written down. **Who acts:** fair test · **What happens:** change, keep, repeat, write down · **To what, where:** one thing, everything, results 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 (fair test), 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:9 # text = A fair test changes only one thing, keeps everything else the same, and is repeated many times with the results written down. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 9 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 9 obj _ _ 11 else else ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 repeated repeat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 18 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 results result NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 23 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 24 down down ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **change** | present | a fair test | one thing | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | | 2 | **keep** | present | a fair test *not said here* | everything | | | | same *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | | 3 | **repeat** | present · passive | a fair test *not said here* | | | | time | with the results | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: with result=Subeventuality | | 4 | **write down** | participle | | the results *not said here* | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:9`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/37-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it/8/) - next →: [Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/37-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/37-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it/)