Sounds wrong, but is right, sentence 0
Some true answers sound so wrong that people laugh, until they check.
Who acts: true answers, people · What happens: sound, laugh, check
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds wrong, but is right» of the world 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 (true answers, people), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 answers | det |
| 2 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 answers | amod |
| 3 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sound | nsubj |
| 4 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 wrong | advmod |
| 6 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sound | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 laugh | mark |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 laugh | nsubj |
| 9 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wrong | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 check | punct |
| 11 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 13 check | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 check | nsubj |
| 13 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 laugh | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sound | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | some true answers | wrong property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | laugh | present | people | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | check | present | people | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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:world:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.lesson:0.
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): no change. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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