Moving, swimming and sport, sentence 3

Scientists have tested many of them, and one doctor even cracked the knuckles of only one hand for sixty years to find out; the knuckles on both hands came out the same.

Who acts: Scientists, one doctor, knuckles · What happens: test, crack, find out, come out · To what, where: many, knuckles, same

This is a sentence of the lesson «Moving, swimming and sport» 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 (Scientists, one doctor, knuckles), 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	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tested	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tested	aux
3	tested	test	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tested	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 many	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cracked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cracked	cc
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 doctor	nummod
10	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cracked	nsubj
11	even	even	ADV	_	12 cracked	advmod
12	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tested	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 knuckles	det
14	knuckles	knuckle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cracked	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 hand	case
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 one	advmod
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 hand	nummod
18	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 knuckles	nmod
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 years	case
20	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 years	nummod
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cracked	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 find	mark
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cracked	advcl
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 find	compound:prt
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 tested	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 knuckles	det
27	knuckles	knuckle	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 came	nsubj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 hands	case
29	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	30 hands	det
30	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 knuckles	nmod
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tested	parataxis
32	out	out	ADV	_	31 came	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 same	det
34	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 came	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tested	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	test	present · perfect	Scientists	many of things			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme
2	crack	past	one doctor	the knuckles of one hand	year		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location knuckle=Theme
3	find out	to-infinitive	one doctor not said here				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	come out	past	the knuckles on both hands	the same		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient same=Result

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:005-moving-swimming-and-sport.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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