--- title: In the three-cups game, Leo's first pick is right only 1 time in 3,… — Sounds wrong, but is right · tree and pragmatics description: In the three-cups game, Leo's first pick is right only 1 time in 3, and his sister lifting an empty cup doesn't change that, so switching wins 2 times in 3. Who acts: first pick, sister, Leo. 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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 (first pick, sister, Leo), 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:7 # text = In the three-cups game, Leo's first pick is right only 1 time in 3, and his sister lifting an empty cup doesn't change that, so switching wins 2 times in 3. # 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 1 In in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 3 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 cups cup NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 compound _ _ 6 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 Leo Leo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 amod _ _ 11 pick pick NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 13 right right ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 only only ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 parataxis _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 23 lifting lift VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 30 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 switching switch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 nsubj _ _ 34 wins win VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 35 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl:unmarked _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 29 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 a** | present | Leo's first pick | 1 time | | 3 | | right *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **lift** | gerund | Leo's sister *not said here* | a empty cup | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme | | 3 | **not** **change** | present · do-support | Leo's sister | that | | the cups game | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | | 4 | **switch** | gerund | | | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **win** | present | | | | 3 | time | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in 3=Eventuality | | 6 | **pick** | | Leo | | | | | | nom pick «cognition transitive»: poss=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:7`. **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. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/6/) - next →: [Sounds wrong, but is right, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/)