Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence, sentence 12
A wrong prediction is still useful, because it teaches you something.
Who acts: wrong prediction, prediction · What happens: be, teach · To what, where: something, you
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 (wrong prediction, prediction), 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 prediction | det |
| 2 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prediction | amod |
| 3 | prediction | prediction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 useful | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 useful | cop |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 useful | advmod |
| 6 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 teaches | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 teaches | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 teaches | nsubj |
| 10 | teaches | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 useful | advcl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 teaches | iobj |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 teaches | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 useful | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a wrong prediction | still | useful property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | teach speech: other | present | prediction | something | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=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:091-being-a-scientist.lesson:12.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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