"How do you know?", sentence 0

The best question in the world has four words: "How do you know?" It isn't rude; it asks for the road from the claim back to the evidence.

Who acts: best question, you, question · What happens: have, know, not be, ask · To what, where: four words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «"How do you know?"» 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 (best question, you, question), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 question	det
2	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 question	amod
3	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 world	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 question	nmod
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 words	nummod
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 has	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 know	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 know	punct
12	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 know	advmod
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 know	aux
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 know	nsubj
15	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 has	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 rude	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 rude	punct
18	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 rude	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 rude	cop
20	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 rude	advmod
21	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 know	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 asks	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 asks	nsubj
24	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 know	conj
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 road	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 road	det
27	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 asks	obl
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 claim	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 claim	det
30	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 road	nmod
31	back	back	ADV	_	30 claim	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 evidence	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 evidence	det
34	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 back	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator, polarity=pos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	the best question in the world	four words		tree rules
2	know in a quote	present · do-support	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	not is	present	question		rude property	tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	present	question		for the road from the claim	vn inquire-37.1.2 «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:world:186-how-do-you-know.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): R8-pos-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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