How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks, sentence 3
If a study shows red wins, how big was the difference, and did anyone repeat it?
Who acts: study, anyone · What happens: show, be, repeat · To what, where: red wins, big difference, study
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 (study, anyone), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 shows | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 study | det |
| 3 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shows | nsubj |
| 4 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 difference | advcl |
| 5 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wins | amod |
| 6 | wins | win | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shows | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 difference | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 big | advmod |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 difference | amod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 difference | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 difference | det |
| 12 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 repeat | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 repeat | cc |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 repeat | aux |
| 16 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 repeat | nsubj |
| 17 | repeat | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 difference | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 repeat | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 difference | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show a condition, not said to happen | present | a study | red wins | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent win=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the big difference | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | repeat | past · do-support | anyone | study | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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:3.
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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