--- title: One clue is a guess; several clues pointing the same way make a bett… — Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times… · tree and pragmatics description: One clue is a guess; several clues pointing the same way make a better guess, but the only way to really know is to ask kindly. Who acts: One clue, several clues, only way. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★» of the reflection course of Mova's primary schoo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/31-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times/14/) [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/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in h…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/31-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times/) / 14 # Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★, sentence 14 One clue is a guess; several clues pointing the same way make a better guess, but the only way to really know is to ask kindly. **Who acts:** One clue, several clues, only way · **What happens:** be, point, make, know · **To what, where:** guess, same way, better guess This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★» of the reflection 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 (One clue, several clues, only way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:031-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times.lesson:14 # text = One clue is a guess; several clues pointing the same way make a better guess, but the only way to really know is to ask kindly. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 031-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times.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): no change 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 clue clue NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 guess guess NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 clues clue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 9 pointing point VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 amod _ _ 16 guess guess NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:outer _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 23 really really ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 28 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **is a** | present | One clue | a guess | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **point** | gerund | several clues *not said here* | the same way | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | | 3 | **make** | present | several clues | a better guess | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset guess=Product | | 4 | **know** | to-infinitive | the only way *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | present | the only way | | | | | ask, kindly *property* | tree rules | 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:reflection:031-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times.lesson:14`. **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): no change. **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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