Disappointed: when things don't go the way you hoped, sentence 16
In science, experiments often fail the first time; explaining why it failed is real science too, called trial and error.
Who acts: experiments, science, explaining, real science · What happens: fail, explain, be, call · To what, where: science, real science, trial · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Disappointed: when things don't go the way you hoped» of the reflection 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 (experiments, science, explaining, real science), 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 | _ | 2 science | case |
| 2 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fail | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 science | punct |
| 4 | experiments | experiment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fail | nsubj |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 fail | advmod |
| 6 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fail | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 explaining | punct |
| 11 | explaining | explain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 science | csubj |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 failed | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 failed | nsubj |
| 14 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 explaining | ccomp |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 science | cop |
| 16 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 science | amod |
| 17 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fail | conj |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 failed | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 called | punct |
| 20 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 science | acl |
| 21 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 called | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 error | cc |
| 23 | error | error | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 trial | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fail | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | present | experiments | science | time | often property | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in science=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | gerund | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | fail | past | science | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | explaining | real science | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | call | participle | real science not said here | trial and error | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:reflection:025-disappointed-when-things-dont-go-the-way-you-hoped.lesson:16.
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. 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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