Where did you read that? Checking sources, sentence 0
Finn holds up his tablet: "It says on a website, so it MUST be true!" Isla waves Grandad's old encyclopaedia: "Nine planets, it's printed right here!" Both are trusting the container, not checking the claim.
Who acts: Finn, tablet, Isla, Both · What happens: hold up, say, be, wave, print, trust · To what, where: tablet, website, old encyclopaedia, container, claim · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Where did you read that? Checking sources» of the myths 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 (Finn, tablet, Isla, Both), 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 | Finn | Finn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 holds | nsubj |
| 2 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 holds | compound:prt |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tablet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 holds | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 8 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 says | nsubj |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 holds | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 website | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 website | det |
| 12 | website | website | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 true | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 true | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 true | nsubj |
| 16 | MUST | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 true | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 true | cop |
| 18 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 says | parataxis |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 holds | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 holds | punct |
| 21 | Isla | Isla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 waves | nsubj |
| 22 | waves | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 holds | parataxis |
| 23 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 encyclopaedia | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Grandad | case |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 encyclopaedia | amod |
| 26 | encyclopaedia | encyclopaedia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 waves | obj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 planets | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 planets | punct |
| 29 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 planets | nummod |
| 30 | planets | planet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 holds | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 printed | punct |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 printed | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 printed | aux:pass |
| 34 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 holds | conj | |
| 35 | right | right | ADV | _ | 36 here | advmod |
| 36 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 printed | advmod |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 holds | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 holds | punct |
| 39 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 trusting | nsubj |
| 40 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 trusting | aux |
| 41 | trusting | trust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 holds | advcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 container | det |
| 43 | container | container | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 trusting | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 checking | punct |
| 45 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 checking | advmod |
| 46 | checking | check | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 trusting | conj |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 claim | det |
| 48 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 checking | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 holds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold up | present | Finn | Finn's tablet | Nine planets obl | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tablet=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | tablet | a website | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | must | tablet | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wave | present | Isla | Grandad's old encyclopaedia | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent encyclopaedia=Patient | ||||
| 5 | print in a quote | present · passive | tablet | here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | trust | present · progressive | Both | the container | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent container=Theme | ||||
| 7 | not check | gerund | Both not said here | the claim | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=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:myths:028-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources.lesson:0.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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