Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news, sentence 7
A good checker asks: is this a fact that can be checked, or someone's opinion?
Who acts: good checker, this, someone · What happens: ask, be, check, opine · To what, where: fact · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news» 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 (good checker, this, someone), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 checker | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 checker | amod |
| 3 | checker | checker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | nsubj |
| 4 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 asks | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fact | cop |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 fact | nsubj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fact | det |
| 9 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | ccomp |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 checked | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 checked | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 checked | aux:pass |
| 13 | checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 fact | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fact | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 opinion | cc |
| 16 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 someone | case |
| 18 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fact | conj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | a good checker | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | this | a fact or someone's opinion | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | check | can · passive | a fact or someone's opinion | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | opine | someone | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=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:everyday:314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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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