Growing, skin, hair and food, sentence 5

So the trick is not to laugh at everything or believe everything, but to ask: what is really going on, and how could I check it?

Who acts: I · What happens: be, not laugh, believe, ask, go on, check · To what, where: trick, everything, skin · 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 (I), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 trick	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trick	det
3	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trick	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 laugh	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 laugh	mark
7	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trick	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 everything	case
9	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 laugh	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 believe	cc
11	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 laugh	conj
12	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 believe	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ask	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 ask	cc
15	to	to	PART	_	16 ask	mark
16	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 laugh	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 going	punct
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 going	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 going	aux
20	really	really	ADV	_	21 going	advmod
21	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 ask	ccomp
22	on	on	ADP	_	21 going	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 check	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 check	cc
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 check	advmod
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 check	aux
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 check	nsubj
28	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 ask	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 check	obj
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 trick	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: suggest
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=suggest

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present		the trick		tree rules
2	not laugh	to-infinitive			everything	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	believe	infinitive		everything		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
4	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go on	present · progressive				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	check	could	I	skin		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:006-growing-skin-hair-and-food.lesson:5.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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