--- title: A survey only tells you about the people it asked; asking just one k… — Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: A survey only tells you about the people it asked; asking just one kind of person, like the pizza queue, gives a lopsided answer. Who acts: survey. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★, sentence 6 A survey only tells you about the people it asked; asking just one kind of person, like the pizza queue, gives a lopsided answer. **Who acts:** survey · **What happens:** tell, ask, give · **To what, where:** you, people, one kind, lopsided answer · **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 (survey), 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:6 # text = A survey only tells you about the people it asked; asking just one kind of person, like the pizza queue, gives a lopsided answer. # 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 survey survey NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 13 just just ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 pizza pizza NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 queue queue NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 lopsided lopsided ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 . . 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a survey | | you | | | about the people | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient about people=Topic | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | survey | the people *not said here* | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | one kind of person | | | | like the pizza queue | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kind=Recipient | | 4 | **give** | present | | a lopsided answer | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:politics:042-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick.lesson:6`. **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. **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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