"How do you know?", sentence 15

In careful studies where nobody knew which children had sugar, the sugar didn't change how they behaved; the excitement of a party is a likelier cause.

Who acts: nobody, children, sugar, excitement · What happens: know, have, not change, behave, be, excite · To what, where: sugar, careful studies, likelier cause, party · 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 (nobody, children, sugar, excitement), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 studies	case
2	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 studies	amod
3	studies	study	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 change	obl
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 knew	advmod
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 knew	nsubj
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 studies	acl:relcl
7	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	8 children	det
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knew	ccomp
10	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 change	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sugar	det
13	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 change	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 change	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 change	advmod
16	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 behaved	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 behaved	nsubj
19	behaved	behave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 change	ccomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 change	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 excitement	det
22	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cause	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 party	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 party	det
25	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 excitement	nmod
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 cause	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 cause	det
28	likelier	likely	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 cause	amod
29	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 change	parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 change	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	know	past	nobody			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	have	past	which children	sugar		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient
3	not change	past · do-support	the sugar		careful studies	tree rules
4	behave	past	children = child			vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	the excitement of a party	a likelier cause		tree rules
6	excite			a party		nom excitement «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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:15.

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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