Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science, sentence 11
But that is the trick: test an idea, and change it if the test says no.
Who acts: that, test · What happens: be, change, say · To what, where: trick, idea, no. · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science» of the history 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 (that, test), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 trick | cc |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 trick | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 trick | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 trick | det |
| 5 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 idea | punct |
| 7 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 idea | compound |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 idea | det |
| 9 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trick | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 change | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 change | cc |
| 12 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 trick | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 change | obj |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 says | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 test | det |
| 16 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 says | nsubj |
| 17 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 change | advcl |
| 18 | no. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 17 says | obj |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | the trick | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | change | infinitive | idea | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | the test | no. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no.=Topic |
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:history:064-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science.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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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