Where did you read that? Checking sources, sentence 10

"Clinically proven" (tested on people) in an advert can mean a tiny test without fair comparison; ask who tested it, on how many people, and compared with what.

What happens: prove, test, mean, ask, compare · To what, where: tiny test, test · 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: 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 proven	punct
2	Clinically	clinically	ADV	_	3 proven	advmod
3	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 mean	csubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 proven	punct
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 tested	punct
6	tested	test	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 proven	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 people	case
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tested	obl
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 tested	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 advert	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 advert	det
12	advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mean	obl
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 mean	aux
14	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 test	det
16	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 test	amod
17	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mean	obj
18	without	without	ADP	_	20 comparison	case
19	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 comparison	amod
20	comparison	comparison	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mean	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 ask	punct
22	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 mean	parataxis
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 tested	nsubj
24	tested	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ask	ccomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tested	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 people	punct
27	on	on	ADP	_	30 people	case
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 many	advmod
29	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 people	amod
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 tested	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 compared	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 compared	cc
33	compared	compare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ask	conj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 what	case
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 compared	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 mean	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=suggest

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	prove in a quote	participle		clinically property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	test	participle		on people	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	mean	can	a tiny test	without fair comparison; in a advert	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot test=Theme in advert=Attribute
4	ask speech: ask	infinitive			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	test	past	test	on many people	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	compare	past			vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with what=Co-Patient

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:10.

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. 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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