How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks, sentence 18
"How would we know?" is a good first question for any claim.
Who acts: we · What happens: know, be · To what, where: good first question · 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 (we), 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 | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 know | advmod |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 question | csubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 question | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 question | det |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 question | amod |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 question | amod |
| 12 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 claim | case |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 claim | det |
| 15 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 question | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 question | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | would | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | be speech: other | present | a good first question | for any claim | 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:18.
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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