Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence, sentence 5
A prediction is a guess about what will happen, based on what you already know.
Who acts: prediction, guess, you · What happens: be, happen, base, know · To what, where: guess
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 (prediction, guess, you), 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 | 2 prediction | det |
| 2 | prediction | prediction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guess | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 guess | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 guess | det |
| 5 | guess | guess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 9 happen | mark |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 happen | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 happen | aux |
| 9 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 guess | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 based | punct |
| 11 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 guess | acl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 what | case |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 based | obl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 15 | already | already | ADV | _ | 16 know | advmod |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 guess | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a prediction | a guess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happen | future | a guess | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | base | participle | a guess not said here | a guess | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on what=Source | ||||
| 4 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:5.
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): no change. 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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