--- title: Studying makes passing more likely, but passing doesn't prove you st… — "If... then..." and its traps · tree and pragmatics description: Studying makes passing more likely, but passing doesn't prove you studied: an easy test is another reason. Who acts: passing, you, easy test. 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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 (passing, you, easy test), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:184-if-then-and-its-traps.lesson:19 # text = Studying makes passing more likely, but passing doesn't prove you studied: an easy test is another reason. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 184-if-then-and-its-traps.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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Studying study VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 nsubj _ _ 2 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 passing passing NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:obj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 4 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 5 likely likely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 passing passing NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 9 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 prove prove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 studied study VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 15 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 20 det _ _ 20 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ _ 21 . . 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 | **study** | gerund | | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **make** | present | | passing | | | | likely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset passing=Product | | 3 | **not** **prove** | present · do-support | passing | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **study** | past | you | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | a easy test | another reason | | | | | 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:184-if-then-and-its-traps.lesson:19`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: ["If... then..." and its traps, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/184-if-then-and-its-traps/18/) - next →: ["If... then..." and its traps, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/184-if-then-and-its-traps/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/184-if-then-and-its-traps/)