How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks, sentence 1
For those you ask the people whose job is checking.
Who acts: you, job · What happens: ask, check · To what, where: people
This is a sentence of the lesson «How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks» 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 (you, job), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 those | case |
| 2 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 ask | obl |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 people | det |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ask | obj |
| 7 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 8 job | nmod:poss |
| 8 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 checking | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 checking | aux |
| 10 | checking | check | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 people | acl:relcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | you | the people | for those | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | |||
| 2 | check | present · progressive | job | 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:myths:030-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks.lesson:1.
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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