--- title: Chance surprises us too: a class of 30 has more than 400 different p… — Sounds wrong, but is right · tree and pragmatics description: Chance surprises us too: a class of 30 has more than 400 different pairs of people, and any pair might match, so two people sharing a birthday is more likely than not. Who acts: Chance, class, pair, two 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 (Chance, class, pair, two 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:6 # text = Chance surprises us too: a class of 30 has more than 400 different pairs of people, and any pair might match, so two people sharing a birthday is more likely than not. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 surprises surprise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 too too ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nmod _ _ 10 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 13 advmod _ _ 12 than than ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 400 400 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 14 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 21 det _ _ 21 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 match match VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:parataxis 24 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 26 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 sharing share VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 csubj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 33 advmod _ _ 33 likely likely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ _ 34 than than SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advcl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **surprise** | present | Chance | us | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer | | 2 | **have** | present | a class of 30 | 400 different pairs of people | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient | | 3 | **match** | might | any pair | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **share** | gerund | two people | a birthday | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | sharing | | | | | likely *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:world:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.lesson:6`. **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): R5-strong ×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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/5/) - next →: [Sounds wrong, but is right, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/)