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title: A percentage change can sound huge when the real numbers are tiny: f… — Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: A percentage change can sound huge when the real numbers are tiny: from 1 to 2 is "up 100%", from 2 to 3 is "up 50%", and from 4 to 6 is also "up 50%". Who acts: percentage change, real numbers. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★» of the politics course of Mov
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# Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★, sentence 5

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A percentage change can sound huge when the real numbers are tiny: from 1 to 2 is "up 100%", from 2 to 3 is "up 50%", and from 4 to 6 is also "up 50%".

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**Who acts:** percentage change, real numbers · **What happens:** sound, be

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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 (percentage change, real numbers), 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:5
# text = A percentage change can sound huge when the real numbers are tiny: from 1 to 2 is "up 100%", from 2 to 3 is "up 50%", and from 4 to 6 is also "up 50%".
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	percentage	percentage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
21	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nmod	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	_
31	up	up	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
32	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	nmod	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
42	also	also	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
43	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	_
44	up	up	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=46:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
45	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
46	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
47	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	46	punct	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | can | a percentage change |  |  |  |  | huge *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | the real numbers |  |  |  |  | tiny *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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:5`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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