Copying and peeking in tests, sentence 18
The answers in the back of a book teach you nothing; doing the working does.
Who acts: answers, doing · What happens: teach, do · To what, where: nothing, you, working
This is a sentence of the lesson «Copying and peeking in tests» 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 (answers, doing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 answers | det |
| 2 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 teach | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 back | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 back | det |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 answers | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 book | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 book | det |
| 8 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 back | nmod |
| 9 | teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 teach | iobj |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 teach | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 teach | punct |
| 13 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 does | csubj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 working | det |
| 15 | working | working | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 doing | obj |
| 16 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 teach | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 teach | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | present | the answers in the back of a book | nothing | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient nothing=Topic | |||
| 2 | do | gerund | the working | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent working=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | do | present | doing | vn act-114-1 «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:everyday:340-copying-and-peeking-in-tests.lesson:18.
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): R5-strong ×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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