Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence, sentence 13
Two things happening together does not prove that one causes the other.
Who acts: Two things, one · What happens: happen, not prove, cause · To what, where: other
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 (Two things, one), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 things | nummod |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 prove | nsubj |
| 3 | happening | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 things | acl |
| 4 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 happening | advmod |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 prove | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 prove | advmod |
| 7 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 causes | mark |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 causes | nsubj |
| 10 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 prove | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 other | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 causes | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 prove | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | gerund | Two things not said here | together property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not prove | present · do-support | Two things | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cause | present | one | the other | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition other=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:13.
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): R5-strong ×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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