"How do you know?", sentence 9
Sharks can get cancer: scientists have found tumours (lumps of cancer) in sharks.
Who acts: Sharks, scientists · What happens: get, find · To what, where: cancer, tumours, sharks
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 (Sharks, scientists), 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 | Sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 get | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | cancer | cancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| 6 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 found | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | aux |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 get | parataxis |
| 9 | tumours | tumour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 found | obj |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 lumps | punct |
| 11 | lumps | lump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tumours | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cancer | case |
| 13 | cancer | cancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lumps | nmod |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 lumps | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 sharks | case |
| 16 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 found | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | can | Sharks | cancer | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cancer=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | find | present · perfect | scientists | tumours | sharks | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tumour=Topic |
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:9.
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. 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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