--- title: Some claims you can't test with two seed trays in the kitchen: wheth… — How would we know? Asking experts and spotting t… · tree and pragmatics description: Some claims you can't test with two seed trays in the kitchen: whether MSG is safe, whether a bridge is sound, whether a photo of a giant squid is real. Who acts: you, MSG, bridge, photo. A sentence of the lesson «How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks» of the myths course of Mova's p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/30-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [How would we know? Asking experts and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/30-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks/) / 0 # How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks, sentence 0 Some claims you can't test with two seed trays in the kitchen: whether MSG is safe, whether a bridge is sound, whether a photo of a giant squid is real. **Who acts:** you, MSG, bridge, photo · **What happens:** not test, be · **To what, where:** claims This is a sentence of the lesson «How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks» of the myths 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, MSG, bridge, photo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:030-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks.lesson:0 # text = Some claims you can't test with two seed trays in the kitchen: whether MSG is safe, whether a bridge is sound, whether a photo of a giant squid is real. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 030-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 claims claim NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 test test VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 acl:relcl _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 9 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 trays tray NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 14 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 MSG msg NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 sound sound ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 26 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 photo photo NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 squid squid NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **not** **test** | can | you | some claims *not said here* | | | | with two seed trays in the kitchen | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | MSG | | | | | safe *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | a bridge | | | | | sound *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | a photo of a giant squid | | | | | real *property* | tree rules | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:myths:030-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks.lesson:0`. **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. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Let's test it! Experiments and fair te…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/29-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests/18/) - next →: [How would we know? 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