Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence, sentence 10
Testing many plants or people is better than testing just one.
What happens: test, be · To what, where: many plants, one
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: 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 | Testing | test | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 better | nsubj |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 plants | amod |
| 3 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Testing | obj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 people | cc |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 plants | conj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 better | cop |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 testing | mark |
| 9 | testing | test | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 better | advcl |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 one | advmod |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 testing | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 better | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | test | gerund | many plants or people | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | test | gerund | one | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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:091-being-a-scientist.lesson:10.
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 ×2. 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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