--- title: A fair test of a lucky charm counts all the cases, with it and witho… — Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions · tree and pragmatics description: A fair test of a lucky charm counts all the cases, with it and without it; tested like that, lucky socks, touching wood and cawing crows make no difference. Who acts: fair test, lucky socks. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fair test, lucky socks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.lesson:14 # text = A fair test of a lucky charm counts all the cases, with it and without it; tested like that, lucky socks, touching wood and cawing crows make no difference. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 6 lucky lucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:amod 7 charm charm NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:compound 8 counts count NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 9 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 11 det:predet _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 cases case NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:appos 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc 16 without without ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 19 tested test VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl 20 like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 23 lucky lucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 socks sock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 touching touch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ _ 27 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=26:cc 29 cawing caw VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 conj _ _ 30 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 32 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 33 det _ _ 33 difference difference NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **test** | participle | a fair test a lucky charm of counts *not said here* | | | | | like that | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **touch** | gerund | lucky socks *not said here* | wood | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Co-Theme | | 3 | **caw** | gerund | lucky socks *not said here* | crows | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crow=Theme | | 4 | **make** | present | a fair test a lucky charm of counts | no difference | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset difference=Product | | 5 | **test** | | | counts | | | | | nom test «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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:world:161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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