Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence, sentence 7
The thing you change on purpose is called the variable you are testing.
Who acts: you · What happens: change, call, test · To what, where: thing, purpose, variable · 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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 thing | det |
| 2 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 change | nsubj |
| 4 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 thing | acl:relcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 purpose | case |
| 6 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 change | obl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 called | aux:pass |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 variable | det |
| 10 | variable | variable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 testing | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 testing | aux |
| 13 | testing | test | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 variable | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | you | the thing not said here | purpose | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | |||
| 2 | call | present · passive | the thing | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | test | present · progressive | you | the variable not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent variable=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:7.
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.
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