Growing, skin, hair and food, sentence 1

But scientists tested it: some children got sugar, others a sugar-free drink, and not even their parents knew who had which.

Who acts: scientists, children, parents · What happens: test, get, not know, have · To what, where: up, sugar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing, skin, hair and food» 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, children, parents), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 tested	cc
2	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tested	nsubj
3	tested	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tested	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 tested	punct
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 children	det
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tested	parataxis
9	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 others	punct
11	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tested	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 drink	det
13	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 free	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 sugar	punct
15	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 drink	amod
16	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tested	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 knew	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 knew	cc
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 knew	advmod
20	even	even	ADV	_	22 parents	advmod
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 parents	nmod:poss
22	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 knew	nsubj
23	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 got	conj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 knew	ccomp
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 had	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tested	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	test	past	scientists	up	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Theme drink=Attribute
2	get	past	some children	sugar	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sugar=Stimulus
3	not know	past	children's parents		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	have	past			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient

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:006-growing-skin-hair-and-food.lesson:1.

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, 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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