Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence, sentence 4
Example: to find out whether plants grow better with plant food, you grow two groups of the same plants in the same pots, soil, light and water, and give plant food to only one group.
Who acts: you, plants · What happens: find out, grow, give · To what, where: two groups, same pots, plant food, one group · 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, plants), 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 | Example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Example | punct |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 find | mark |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 grow | advcl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 find | compound:prt |
| 6 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 8 grow | mark |
| 7 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 grow | nsubj |
| 8 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | ccomp |
| 9 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 grow | xcomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 food | case |
| 11 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 food | compound |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 better | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grow | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 grow | nsubj |
| 15 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Example | appos |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 groups | nummod |
| 17 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 grow | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 plants | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 plants | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 plants | amod |
| 21 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 groups | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 pots | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pots | det |
| 24 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 pots | amod |
| 25 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 groups | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 soil | punct |
| 27 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pots | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 light | punct |
| 29 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pots | appos |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 water | cc |
| 31 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 light | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 give | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 give | cc |
| 34 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 grow | conj |
| 35 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 food | compound |
| 36 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 give | obj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 group | case |
| 38 | only | only | ADV | _ | 39 one | advmod |
| 39 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 group | nummod |
| 40 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 give | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Example | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | grow | present | plants | good property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | present | you | two groups of the same plants | the same pots and soil | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location group=Theme | |||
| 4 | give | present | you not said here | plant food | one group | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Theme to group=Recipient |
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:4.
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 ×3, R8-pos-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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