--- title: In a class of 30 it is more likely than not that two people share a… — Sounds wrong, but is right · tree and pragmatics description: In a class of 30 it is more likely than not that two people share a birthday, because there are more than 400 different pairs of people who could match. Who acts: it, two people, 400 different pairs, people. 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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 (it, two people, 400 different pairs, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.lesson:11 # text = In a class of 30 it is more likely than not that two people share a birthday, because there are more than 400 different pairs of people who could match. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nmod _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 9 advmod _ _ 9 likely likely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 than than SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 13 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 share share VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 21 expl _ _ 21 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 22 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 24 advmod _ _ 23 than than ADP IN _ 22 fixed _ _ 24 400 400 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 25 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 29 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 30 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 match match VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 acl:relcl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | it | | | a class of 30 | | likely *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **share** | present | two people | a birthday | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **does** | present | 400 different pairs of people | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **match** | could | people | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.lesson:11`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Sounds wrong, but is right, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/9/) - next →: [Sounds wrong, but is right, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/)