When the teacher gets it wrong, sentence 2
Then ask, don't attack: "I read that spiders are arachnids because of the eight legs, is that right?"
Who acts: you, I, spiders, that · What happens: ask, not attack, read, be · To what, where: arachnids · 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 (you, I, spiders, that), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 ask | advmod |
| 2 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 attack | punct |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 attack | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 attack | advmod |
| 6 | attack | attack | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 ask | ccomp |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 read | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 read | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 read | nsubj |
| 10 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ask | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 arachnids | mark |
| 12 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 arachnids | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 arachnids | cop |
| 14 | arachnids | arachnid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 read | ccomp |
| 15 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 19 legs | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 because | fixed |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 legs | det |
| 18 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 legs | nummod |
| 19 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 attack | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 right | punct |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 right | cop |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 right | nsubj |
| 23 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ask | parataxis |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not attack | infinitive · do-support | because the eight legs | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | read in a quote | past | I | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | spiders | arachnids | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | that | right 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:033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.lesson:2.
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): R7-rel-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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