Cherry-picked clips and clickbait headlines, sentence 13

A headline asking a scary question is not a fact; Betteridge's law is a joke rule that such questions can usually be answered "no".

Who acts: headline, law · What happens: ask, not be, be, answer · To what, where: scary question, fact, joke rule, such questions

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cherry-picked clips and clickbait headlines» of the politics 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 (headline, law), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 headline	det
2	headline	headline	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fact	nsubj
3	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 headline	acl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 question	det
5	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 question	amod
6	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asking	obj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fact	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 fact	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fact	det
10	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 fact	punct
12	Betteridge	Betteridge	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 law	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Betteridge	case
14	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rule	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 rule	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 rule	det
17	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rule	compound
18	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fact	parataxis
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 answered	obj
20	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 questions	amod
21	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 answered	nsubj:pass
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 answered	aux
23	usually	usually	ADV	_	25 answered	advmod
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 answered	aux:pass
25	answered	answer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 rule	acl:relcl
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 no	punct
27	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	25 answered	discourse
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 no	punct
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fact	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund	a headline not said here	a scary question		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
2	not is a	present	a headline	a fact		tree rules
3	is a	present	Betteridge's law	a joke rule		tree rules
4	answer speech: assert	can · passive		such questions	usually property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme that=Eventuality

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:politics:033-cherry-picked-clips-and-clickbait.lesson:13.

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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