The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food, sentence 8
Fourth: ask how we know.
Who acts: Fourth, we · What happens: ask, know
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food» 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 (Fourth, we), 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 | Fourth | fourth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fourth | punct |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 know | advmod |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ask | advcl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp, act=request
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | Fourth | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know | present | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.lesson:8.
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): R6-punct-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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