Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence, sentence 8
A control group is kept without the change so you can compare the results with it.
Who acts: you · What happens: keep, compare · To what, where: control group, results
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 group | det |
| 2 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 group | compound |
| 3 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kept | aux:pass |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | without | without | ADP | _ | 8 change | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 change | det |
| 8 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | obl |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 compare | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 compare | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 compare | aux |
| 12 | compare | compare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 kept | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 results | det |
| 14 | results | result | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 compare | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 compare | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present · passive | a control group | without the change | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | compare | can | you | the results | with result | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent result=Patient with it=Co-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:8.
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): R7-rel-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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