Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence, sentence 15
Scientists write down their method so that others can repeat the test and check it.
Who acts: Scientists, others · What happens: write down, repeat, check · To what, where: method, test, scientist
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 (Scientists, others), 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 | Scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 write | nsubj |
| 2 | write | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 write | compound:prt |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 method | nmod:poss |
| 5 | method | method | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 write | obj |
| 6 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 10 repeat | mark |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 repeat | mark |
| 8 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 repeat | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 repeat | aux |
| 10 | repeat | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 write | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 test | det |
| 12 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 repeat | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 check | cc |
| 14 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 repeat | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 check | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 write | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write down | present | Scientists | minds's method | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent method=Theme | ||||
| 2 | repeat | can | others | the test | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | check | infinitive | others not said here | scientist | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:15.
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, R8-pos-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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