Check the claim, not the person, sentence 11
A true thing is true whoever says it, even a little kid.
Who acts: true thing, whoever · What happens: be, say · To what, where: thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Check the claim, not the person» 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 (true thing, whoever), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 true | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | cop |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 says | nsubj |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 says | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kid | punct |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 kid | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 kid | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 kid | amod |
| 13 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | dep |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a true thing | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | whoever | thing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=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:188-check-the-claim-not-the-person.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): 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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