How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks, sentence 9
Giant squid are real deep-sea animals, but photos of them can be edited; a giant squid on a British beach would be reported by real news outlets and museums, and a grown-up can do a reverse image search (asking a search site where else the photo has appeared).
Who acts: Giant squid, real news outlets, grown up, photo · What happens: be, edit, report, grow, do, ask · To what, where: real sea animals, photos, giant squid, image search, search site
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 (Giant squid, real news outlets, grown up, photo), 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 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 squid | amod |
| 2 | squid | squid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 animals | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 animals | cop |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 animals | amod |
| 5 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sea | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 deep | punct |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 animals | compound |
| 8 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 edited | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 edited | cc |
| 11 | photos | photo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 edited | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 photos | nmod |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 edited | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 edited | aux:pass |
| 16 | edited | edit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 animals | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 reported | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 squid | det |
| 19 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 squid | amod |
| 20 | squid | squid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 beach | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 beach | det |
| 23 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 beach | amod |
| 24 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 squid | nmod |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 reported | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 reported | aux:pass |
| 27 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 edited | conj |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 outlets | case |
| 29 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 outlets | amod |
| 30 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 outlets | compound |
| 31 | outlets | outlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 reported | obl:agent |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 museums | cc |
| 33 | museums | museum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 outlets | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 do | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 do | cc |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 up | det |
| 37 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 up | amod |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 up | punct |
| 39 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 do | nsubj |
| 40 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 do | aux |
| 41 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 edited | parataxis |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 search | det |
| 43 | reverse | reverse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 image | compound |
| 44 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 search | compound |
| 45 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 do | obj |
| 46 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 47 asking | punct |
| 47 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 do | advcl |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 site | det |
| 49 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 site | compound |
| 50 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 asking | obj |
| 51 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 56 appeared | advmod |
| 52 | else | else | ADV | _ | 51 where | advmod |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 photo | det |
| 54 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 appeared | nsubj |
| 55 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 56 appeared | aux |
| 56 | appeared | appear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 50 site | acl:relcl |
| 57 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 47 asking | punct |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 animals | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Giant squid | real sea animals | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | edit | can · passive | photos of fighters | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | report | would · passive | real news outlets and museums | a giant squid on a British beach | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | do | can | a grown up | a image search | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent search=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | gerund | a grown up not said here | a search site | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent site=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | appear | present · perfect | the photo | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:9.
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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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