Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★, sentence 9
Fortune telling means being sure how the future will turn out, usually badly, though nobody can know the future.
Who acts: Fortune telling, future, nobody · What happens: means, be, turn out, know · To what, where: future
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★» 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 (Fortune telling, future, nobody), 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 | Fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 telling | compound |
| 2 | telling | telling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | means | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Ger | 5 sure | cop |
| 5 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 means | xcomp |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 turn | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 future | det |
| 8 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turn | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 turn | aux |
| 10 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sure | ccomp |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 turn | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 badly | punct |
| 13 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 14 badly | advmod |
| 14 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 turn | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 16 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 19 know | mark |
| 17 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 know | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | aux |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 turn | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 future | det |
| 21 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 know | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | means | present | Fortune telling | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | Fortune telling not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | turn out | future | the future | badly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know | can | nobody | the future | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer future=Stimulus |
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:032-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first.lesson:9.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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