Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence, sentence 0
A scientist starts with a question, makes a careful guess called a prediction, and then tests it to see whether the world agrees.
Who acts: scientist, careful guess, world · What happens: start, make, call, test, see, agree · To what, where: careful guess, prediction · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence» 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 (scientist, careful guess, world), 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 | 2 scientist | det |
| 2 | scientist | scientist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 starts | nsubj |
| 3 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 question | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 question | det |
| 6 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 starts | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 makes | punct |
| 8 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 starts | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 guess | det |
| 10 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 guess | amod |
| 11 | guess | guess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 makes | obj |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 guess | acl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 prediction | det |
| 14 | prediction | prediction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tests | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tests | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 tests | advmod |
| 18 | tests | test | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 starts | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 tests | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 tests | advcl |
| 22 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 25 agrees | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 world | det |
| 24 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 agrees | nsubj |
| 25 | agrees | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 see | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 starts | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | a scientist | with a question | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with question=Subeventuality | ||||
| 2 | make | present | a scientist not said here | a careful guess | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset guess=Product | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | a careful guess not said here | a prediction | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prediction=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | test | present | a scientist not said here | prediction | then | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | a scientist not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | agree speech: agree | present | the world | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:091-being-a-scientist.lesson:0.
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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/91-being-a-scientist/0/