--- title: Fortune telling means being sure how the future will turn out, usual… — Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Fortune telling means being sure how the future will turn out, usually badly, though nobody can know the future. Who acts: Fortune telling, future, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/32-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first/9/) [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: thinking traps and what help…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/32-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first/) / 9 # Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★, sentence 9 Fortune telling means being sure how the future will turn out, usually badly, though nobody can know the future. **Who acts:** Fortune telling, future, nobody · **What happens:** means, be, turn out, know · **To what, where:** future This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★» 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 (Fortune telling, future, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:032-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first.lesson:9 # text = Fortune telling means being sure how the future will turn out, usually badly, though nobody can know the future. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 032-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 telling telling NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 means means VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger 5 cop _ _ 5 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp 6 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 future future NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 11 out out ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 usually usually ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 though though SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 19 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 future future NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **means** | present | Fortune telling | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | gerund | Fortune telling *not said here* | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **turn out** | future | the future | | | | | badly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **know** | can | nobody | the future | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer future=Stimulus | 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:032-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first.lesson:9`. **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): 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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