When the teacher gets it wrong, sentence 0

Teachers know a lot, but they are people, and some of them learned myths at school too: "glass is a liquid", "bats are blind", "lightning never strikes twice".

Who acts: Teachers, some, glass, bats, lightning · What happens: know, be, learn, not strike · To what, where: lot, people, myths, school, liquid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «When the teacher gets it wrong» 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 (Teachers, some, glass, bats), 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	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lot	det
4	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 know	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 people	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 people	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 people	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 people	cop
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 know	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 learned	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 learned	cc
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 learned	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 some	nmod
15	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 know	conj
16	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 learned	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 school	case
18	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 learned	obl
19	too	too	ADV	_	15 learned	advmod
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 liquid	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 liquid	punct
22	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 liquid	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 liquid	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 liquid	det
25	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 learned	parataxis
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 liquid	punct
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 blind	punct
29	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 blind	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 blind	cop
31	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 know	parataxis
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 blind	punct
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 blind	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 strikes	punct
35	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 strikes	nsubj
36	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	37 strikes	advmod
37	strikes	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 blind	parataxis
38	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	37 strikes	advmod
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 blind	punct
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	Teachers	a lot			tree rules
2	is a	present	Teachers = teacher	people			tree rules
3	learn	past	some	myths	school		tree rules
4	is a in a quote	present	glass	a liquid			tree rules
5	is in a quote	present	bats			blind property	tree rules
6	not strike in a quote	present	lightning			twice property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «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:033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.lesson:0.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

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