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title: Numbers can shout: "bike thefts up 100%!" sounds like a crime wave,… — Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Numbers can shout: "bike thefts up 100%!" sounds like a crime wave, but in a village it may mean 1 theft last year and 2 this year, just one more bike. Who acts: Numbers, job. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★» of the politics course of Mova's primary school 
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# Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★, sentence 1

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Numbers can shout: "bike thefts up 100%!" sounds like a crime wave, but in a village it may mean 1 theft last year and 2 this year, just one more bike.

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**Who acts:** Numbers, job · **What happens:** shout, sound, mean · **To what, where:** bike thefts, 1 theft

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★» of the politics 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 (Numbers, job), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:042-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick.lesson:1
# text = Numbers can shout: "bike thefts up 100%!" sounds like a crime wave, but in a village it may mean 1 theft last year and 2 this year, just one more bike.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 042-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	shout	shout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	thefts	theft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
13	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
26	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	theft	theft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=27:cc
31	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	conj	_	_
32	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	just	just	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
36	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
37	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	38	amod	_	_
38	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **shout** *speech: express* | can | Numbers | bike thefts |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent %=Topic |
| 2 | **sound** | present | Numbers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a crime wave | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **mean** | may | job | 1 theft |  |  | year | in a village | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot theft=Theme in village=Attribute |

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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): R1-cc-next ×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/).

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