Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right, sentence 16

Myths spread because they make good stories and people repeat them without checking; scientists test ideas with careful watching and experiments.

Who acts: Myths, people, scientists · What happens: spread, make, repeat, check, test · To what, where: good stories, myths, ideas

This is a sentence of the lesson «Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right» of the biology 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 (Myths, people, scientists), 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	Myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spread	nsubj
2	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 make	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 spread	advcl
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stories	amod
7	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 repeat	cc
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 repeat	nsubj
10	repeat	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 make	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 repeat	obj
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 checking	mark
13	checking	check	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 repeat	advcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 ideas	punct
15	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 test	nsubj
16	test	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 spread	parataxis
17	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 test	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 watching	case
19	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 watching	amod
20	watching	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 test	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 experiments	cc
22	experiments	experiment	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 watching	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spread	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spread	present	Myths			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	present	myths = myth	good stories		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset story=Product
3	repeat	present	people	myths = myth		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
4	check	gerund	people not said here			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	test	present	scientists	ideas	with careful watching and experiments	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=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, 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:biology:117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right.lesson:16.

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 ×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.

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