Too many details, too few, sentence 46
No single clue proves a lie; clues are reasons to ask kindly or to check.
Who acts: single clue, clues · What happens: prove, be, ask, check · To what, where: lie, reasons
This is a sentence of the lesson «Too many details, too few» 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 (single clue, clues), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 clue | det |
| 2 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 clue | amod |
| 3 | clue | clue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proves | nsubj |
| 4 | proves | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lie | det |
| 6 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proves | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 reasons | punct |
| 8 | clues | clue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 reasons | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 reasons | cop |
| 10 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 proves | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 ask | mark |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 reasons | acl |
| 13 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 12 ask | advmod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 check | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 check | mark |
| 16 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ask | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 proves | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | present | no single clue | a lie | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | clues | reasons | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | no single clue not said here | kindly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | check | to-infinitive | no single clue not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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:450-too-many-details-too-few.lesson:46.
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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