Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries, sentence 7
«Everyone knows homework is pointless» sounds like a fact, but it is an opinion dressed up as one.
Who acts: Everyone, homework · What happens: know, be, sound, dress up · To what, where: opinion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries» of the english 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 (Everyone, homework), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
| 2 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 knows | nsubj |
| 3 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sounds | parataxis |
| 4 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pointless | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pointless | cop |
| 6 | pointless | pointless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knows | ccomp |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
| 8 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 fact | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fact | det |
| 11 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sounds | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 opinion | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 opinion | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 opinion | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 opinion | cop |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 opinion | det |
| 17 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sounds | conj |
| 18 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 opinion | acl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 dressed | compound:prt |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 dressed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sounds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | Everyone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | homework | pointless property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sound | present | like a fact | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | homework | a opinion | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | dress up | participle | a opinion not said here | as one | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:english:024-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries.lesson:7.
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): no change. 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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