Rumours and gossip, sentence 11
Asking «How do you know that?» helps you test a rumour.
Who acts: you · What happens: ask, know, help, test · To what, where: that, you, rumour · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rumours and gossip» of the everyday 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 (you), 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 | Asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 3 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 know | advmod |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Asking | ccomp |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 know | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 10 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 helps | obj |
| 12 | test | test | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 helps | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 rumour | det |
| 14 | rumour | rumour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 test | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, indirect=0
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present · do-support | you | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | help | present | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | test | infinitive | you not said here | a rumour | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rumour=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:everyday:202-rumours-and-gossip.lesson:11.
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, 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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