Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish, sentence 4

The way to put a myth right is the scientist's way: ask what the animal really does, test it fairly, and look at who first told the story and why.

Who acts: way, animal · What happens: put, be, ask, do, test, look · To what, where: myth, way, story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish» 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 (way, animal), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 way	nsubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 put	mark
4	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 way	acl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 myth	det
6	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
7	right	right	ADV	_	4 put	advmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 way	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 scientist	det
10	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 way	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 scientist	case
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 ask	punct
14	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 way	parataxis
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 does	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 animal	det
17	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 does	nsubj
18	really	really	ADV	_	19 does	advmod
19	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 ask	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 test	punct
21	test	test	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ask	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 test	obj
23	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	21 test	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 look	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 look	cc
26	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ask	conj
27	at	at	SCONJ	_	30 told	mark
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 told	nsubj
29	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 told	advmod
30	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 look	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 story	det
32	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 told	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 why	cc
34	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	30 told	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 way	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	put	to-infinitive	the way not said here	a myth	right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent myth=Goal
2	is a	present	the way	the scientist's way		tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do	present	the animal			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
5	test	infinitive		way	fairly property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	look	infinitive				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	tell speech: assert	past		the story	first property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient

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:295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.lesson:4.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×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.

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