--- title: Many traps come from thinking in straight lines: things that double… — Sounds right, but is wrong · tree and pragmatics description: Many traps come from thinking in straight lines: things that double don't grow evenly (lily pads), handshakes grow faster than the number of kids, and a price that goes up by half and then down by half doesn't come back. Who acts: Many traps, things, handshakes, price. A sentence of the lesson «Soun --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Sounds right, but is wrong](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/) / 5 # Sounds right, but is wrong, sentence 5 Many traps come from thinking in straight lines: things that double don't grow evenly (lily pads), handshakes grow faster than the number of kids, and a price that goes up by half and then down by half doesn't come back. **Who acts:** Many traps, things, handshakes, price · **What happens:** come, think, double, not grow, grow, go up · **To what, where:** straight lines This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds right, but is wrong» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many traps, things, handshakes, price), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.lesson:5 # text = Many traps come from thinking in straight lines: things that double don't grow evenly (lily pads), handshakes grow faster than the number of kids, and a price that goes up by half and then down by half doesn't come back. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 traps trap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 10 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 double double VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 16 evenly evenly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 18 lily lily NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 pads pad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 appos _ _ 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 22 handshakes handshake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 24 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ _ 25 than than ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obl 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 up up ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 by by ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 35 obl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 41 advmod _ _ 41 down down ADV RB _ 38 conj _ _ 42 by by ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 41 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=46:obl 44 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 45 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 46 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 47 back back ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Many traps | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Many traps *not said here* | | | straight lines | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **double** | present | things | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **not** **grow** | present · do-support | things | | | | | evenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **grow** | present | handshakes | | | | | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **go up** | present | a price | | | | | by half | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 7 | **not** **come back** | present · do-support | a price | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.lesson:5`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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 right, but is wrong, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/4/) - next →: [Sounds right, but is wrong, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/)