Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★, sentence 8
In one study, mothers were told their young sons had drunk sugar when the drink had none, and they still judged the boys more hyper; careful studies find that sugar does not make children hyperactive.
Who acts: young sons, drink, sons, careful studies, sugar · What happens: tell, drunk, have, judge, find, not make · To what, where: mothers, one study, sugar, none, boys, children · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★» 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 (young sons, drink, sons, careful studies), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 study | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 study | nummod |
| 3 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 study | punct |
| 5 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 told | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | aux:pass |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sons | nmod:poss |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sons | amod |
| 10 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 drunk | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 drunk | aux |
| 12 | drunk | drunk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 told | ccomp |
| 13 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drunk | obj |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 had | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 drink | det |
| 16 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 drunk | advcl |
| 18 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 17 had | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 judged | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 judged | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 judged | nsubj |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 judged | advmod |
| 23 | judged | judge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 boys | det |
| 25 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 judged | obj |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 hyper | advmod |
| 27 | hyper | hyper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 judged | xcomp |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 find | punct |
| 29 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 studies | amod |
| 30 | studies | study | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 find | nsubj |
| 31 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | parataxis |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 make | mark |
| 33 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 make | nsubj |
| 34 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 make | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 make | advmod |
| 36 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 find | ccomp |
| 37 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 make | obj |
| 38 | hyperactive | hyperactive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 make | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | mothers | one study | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | drunk | past · perfect | mothers's young sons | sugar | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the drink | none | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient | ||||
| 4 | judge | past | sons = son | the boys | still | hyper property | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent boy=Value | ||
| 5 | find | present | careful studies | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not make | present · do-support | sugar | children | hyperactive property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset child=Product |
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:037-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it.lesson:8.
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 ×2, 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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