How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks, sentence 15

"Everybody knows" is not evidence; many things everybody knew, like the Sun going round the Earth, were wrong.

Who acts: Everybody, Sun, many things · What happens: know, not be, go, be · To what, where: evidence, many things, Earth · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Everybody, Sun, many things), 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 knows	punct
2	Everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 knows	nsubj
3	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 evidence	csubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 evidence	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 evidence	advmod
7	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wrong	parataxis
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 wrong	punct
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 things	amod
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wrong	nsubj
11	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 knew	nsubj
12	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 things	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct
14	like	like	SCONJ	_	17 going	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Sun	det
16	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 going	nsubj
17	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 wrong	advcl
18	round	round	ADP	_	20 Earth	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Earth	det
20	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 going	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Earth	punct
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 wrong	cop
23	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 evidence	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	Everybody				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not is a	present		evidence			tree rules
3	know	past	everybody	many things not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
4	go	gerund	the Sun		the Earth		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round earth=Initial_Location
5	is	past	many things			wrong property	tree rules

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:15.

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 ×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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