"How do you know?", sentence 11
One trick, like sitting, can't show that a dog is the smartest of millions of dogs.
Who acts: One trick, dog · What happens: sit, not show, be · 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 (One trick, dog), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 trick | nummod |
| 2 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 show | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 trick | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 sitting | case |
| 5 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 trick | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 show | punct |
| 7 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 show | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 show | advmod |
| 9 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 smartest | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 dog | det |
| 12 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 smartest | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 smartest | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 smartest | det |
| 15 | smartest | smart | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 show | ccomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 millions | case |
| 17 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 smartest | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 dogs | case |
| 19 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 millions | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 show | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not show | can | One trick | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | a dog | of millions of dogs; smart property | 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:186-how-do-you-know.lesson:11.
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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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