--- title: Who was asked matters as much as the answer: "9 out of 10 kids love… — Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Who was asked matters as much as the answer: "9 out of 10 kids love the new lunch" means little if the 10 kids were all standing in the pizza queue. Who acts: 9 10 kids, 10 kids. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★» of the politics course of Mova's primary scho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/42-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick/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/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / [Olympiad: check the claim and spot the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/42-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick/) / 2 # Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★, sentence 2 Who was asked matters as much as the answer: "9 out of 10 kids love the new lunch" means little if the 10 kids were all standing in the pizza queue. **Who acts:** 9 10 kids, 10 kids · **What happens:** ask, matter, love, mean, stand · **To what, where:** new lunch, little, pizza queue · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (9 10 kids, 10 kids), 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:2 # text = Who was asked matters as much as the answer: "9 out of 10 kids love the new lunch" means little if the 10 kids were all standing in the pizza queue. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 csubj:pass _ _ 4 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 as as ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 much much ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 12 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 13 out out ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 16 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nsubj 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 22 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 23 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 obj _ _ 24 if if SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:mark 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 28 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 all all ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:nsubj|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot 30 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 pizza pizza NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 queue queue NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · passive | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 2 | **matter** | present | | | | | | as the answer | tree rules | | 3 | **love** *in a quote* | present | 9 10 kids | the new lunch | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | 9 10 kids *not said here* | little | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Topic | | 5 | **stand** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · progressive | the 10 kids | | | the pizza queue | | all *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in queue=Location | 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:politics:042-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. 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