Sounding right and being right, sentence 3
So common questions, like why the sky is blue, get good answers, because thousands of people have explained them well.
Who acts: sky, common questions, thousands · What happens: be, get, explain · To what, where: good answers, answers
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounding right and being right» of the ai 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 (sky, common questions, thousands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 12 get | advmod |
| 2 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 questions | amod |
| 3 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 get | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 5 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 10 blue | mark |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 blue | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sky | det |
| 8 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blue | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 blue | cop |
| 10 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 get | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 blue | punct |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 answers | amod |
| 14 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 get | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 explained | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 explained | mark |
| 17 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 explained | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 people | case |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 thousands | nmod |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 explained | aux |
| 21 | explained | explain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 get | advcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 explained | obj |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 explained | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the sky | blue property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | common questions | good answers | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | present · perfect | thousands of people | answers = answer | well property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
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, 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:ai:003-sounding-right-and-being-right.lesson:3.
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.
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