How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks, sentence 14
"Superfood" is a selling word, not a science word; blueberries are healthy, but no single food cures diseases.
Who acts: Superfood, blueberries, single food · What happens: be, cure · To what, where: selling word, diseases
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 (Superfood, blueberries, single food), 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 | _ | 2 Superfood | punct |
| 2 | Superfood | superfood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 word | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Superfood | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 word | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 word | det |
| 6 | selling | selling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 word | compound |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 word | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 word | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 word | det |
| 11 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 word | compound |
| 12 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 word | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 healthy | punct |
| 14 | blueberries | blueberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 healthy | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 healthy | cop |
| 16 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 word | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 cures | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 cures | cc |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 food | det |
| 20 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 food | amod |
| 21 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cures | nsubj |
| 22 | cures | cure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 healthy | conj |
| 23 | diseases | disease | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 cures | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 word | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Superfood | a selling word and a science word | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | blueberries | healthy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cure | present | no single food | diseases | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer disease=Source |
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:14.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1. 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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