--- title: With socks of only two colours, 3 socks are always enough to be sure… — Sounds wrong, but is right · tree and pragmatics description: With socks of only two colours, 3 socks are always enough to be sure of a matching pair; grown-ups call this the pigeonhole principle. Who acts: 3 socks, grown ups. 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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 (3 socks, grown ups), 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:15 # text = With socks of only two colours, 3 socks are always enough to be sure of a matching pair; grown-ups call this the pigeonhole principle. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 With with ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 socks sock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 socks sock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 12 advmod _ _ 12 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 parataxis _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 cop _ _ 15 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 advcl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 matching match VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 21 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 23 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 25 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 obj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 pigeonhole pigeonhole NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 principle principle NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 xcomp _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | 3 socks | | | | | with socks of two colours; always, enough *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | 3 socks *not said here* | | | | | of a matching pair; sure *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **match** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | grown ups | this | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient | 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:15`. **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, R8-pos-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, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/14/) - next →: [Sounds wrong, but is right, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/)