"How do you know?", sentence 6

Many famous "facts" are myths that nobody checked: carrots for night vision, the 10% brain, gum staying seven years, ostriches burying their heads.

Who acts: Many famous facts, nobody, gum, ostriches · What happens: be, check, stay, bury · To what, where: myths, heads

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 (Many famous facts, nobody, gum, ostriches), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 facts	amod
2	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 facts	amod
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 facts	punct
4	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 myths	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 facts	punct
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 myths	cop
7	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 checked	obj
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 checked	nsubj
10	checked	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 myths	acl:relcl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 myths	punct
12	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 myths	appos
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 vision	case
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 vision	compound
15	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carrots	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 brain	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 brain	det
18	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 %	nummod
19	%	%	SYM	Number=Sing	20 brain	compound
20	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carrots	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gum	punct
22	gum	gum	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 brain	conj
23	staying	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 gum	acl
24	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 years	nummod
25	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 staying	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ostriches	punct
27	ostriches	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 carrots	conj
28	burying	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 ostriches	acl
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 heads	nmod:poss
30	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 burying	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 myths	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	present	Many famous facts	myths		tree rules
2	check	past	nobody	myths		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
3	stay	gerund	gum not said here		year	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bury	gerund	ostriches not said here	facts's heads		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme

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:6.

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 ×1, R7-rel-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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