"If... then..." and its traps, sentence 18

A correct step from a false rule can give a wrong answer: a dog that barks at squirrels doesn't prove someone is at the door.

Who acts: correct step, dog, someone · What happens: give, bark, not prove, be · To what, where: wrong answer, door

This is a sentence of the lesson «"If... then..." and its traps» 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 (correct step, dog, someone), 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	3 step	det
2	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 step	amod
3	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 rule	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rule	det
6	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rule	amod
7	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 step	nmod
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 give	aux
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 answer	det
11	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 answer	amod
12	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 prove	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 dog	det
15	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 prove	nsubj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 barks	nsubj
17	barks	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 dog	acl:relcl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 squirrels	case
19	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 barks	obl
20	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 prove	aux
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 prove	advmod
22	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 answer	parataxis
23	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 door	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 door	cop
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 door	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 door	det
27	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 prove	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	can	a correct step from a false rule	a wrong answer			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme
2	bark	present	a dog			at squirrels	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at squirrel=Stimulus
3	not prove	present · do-support	a dog				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	someone		the door		tree rules

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:184-if-then-and-its-traps.lesson:18.

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.

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