Olympiad: tricky comprehension, sentence 16
When a text does not give a reason, a good reader can say what is possible but does not claim it is certain.
Who acts: text, good reader, reader · What happens: not give, say, be, not claim · To what, where: reason · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» 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 (text, good reader, reader), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 text | det |
| 3 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 give | advmod |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 say | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 reason | det |
| 8 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 say | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 reader | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 reader | amod |
| 12 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 say | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 say | aux |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 possible | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 possible | cop |
| 17 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 say | ccomp |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 claim | cc |
| 19 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 claim | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 claim | advmod |
| 21 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 say | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 certain | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 certain | cop |
| 24 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 claim | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | present · do-support | a text | a reason | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | can | a good reader | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | possible property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not claim speech: other | present · do-support | a good reader not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | reader | certain property | tree rules |
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:060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.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): 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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