"How do you know?", sentence 2
Weak answers are "I just know", "everyone says it", "it was on a poster" or "it's an old saying".
Who acts: I, everyone, road · What happens: be, know, say · To what, where: Weak answers, road, poster, old saying · 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 (I, everyone, road), 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 | Weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 answers | amod |
| 2 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 answers | cop |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 know | advmod |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 answers | parataxis |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
| 11 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 says | nsubj |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 says | obj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 " | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 poster | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 poster | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 poster | cop |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 poster | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 poster | det |
| 21 | poster | poster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 answers | parataxis |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 poster | punct |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 saying | cc |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 saying | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 saying | nsubj |
| 26 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 saying | cop |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 saying | det |
| 28 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 saying | amod |
| 29 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 poster | conj |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 saying | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answers | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: assert | present | Weak answers | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | everyone | road | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | road | a poster or a old saying | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | road | a old saying | 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:2.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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