Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence, sentence 1

In a fair test you change only one thing and keep everything else the same, so that if the result changes, you know which thing caused it.

Who acts: you, result, thing · What happens: change, keep, know, cause · To what, where: one thing, fair test, everything, result · 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 (you, result, thing), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 test	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 test	det
3	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 test	amod
4	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 change	obl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 change	nsubj
6	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 one	advmod
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 thing	nummod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 change	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 keep	cc
11	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 change	conj
12	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 keep	obj
13	else	else	ADV	_	12 everything	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 same	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 keep	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 changes	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	22 changes	advmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 changes	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 changes	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 result	det
21	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 changes	nsubj
22	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 know	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 know	punct
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 know	nsubj
25	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 change	advcl
26	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	27 thing	det
27	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 caused	nsubj
28	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 know	ccomp
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 caused	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 change	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	change	present	you	one thing	a fair test		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here	everything		same property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
3	change	present	the result				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	know	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	cause	past	which thing	result			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient

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:1.

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): 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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