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title: Testing many plants or people is better than testing just one. — Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evid… · tree and pragmatics
description: Testing many plants or people is better than testing just one. A sentence of the lesson «Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence, sentence 10

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Testing many plants or people is better than testing just one.

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**What happens:** test, be · **To what, where:** many plants, one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:091-being-a-scientist.lesson:10
# text = Testing many plants or people is better than testing just one.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 091-being-a-scientist.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Testing	test	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	nsubj	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
8	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
9	testing	test	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obl
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **test** | gerund |  | many plants or people |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **test** | gerund |  | one |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |

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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.

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**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:091-being-a-scientist.lesson:10`.

**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): R7-rel-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/).

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