--- title: "Everybody knows" is not evidence; many things everybody knew, like… — How would we know? Asking experts and spotting t… · tree and pragmatics description: "Everybody knows" is not evidence; many things everybody knew, like the Sun going round the Earth, were wrong. Who acts: Everybody, Sun, many things. A sentence of the lesson «How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks, sentence 15 "Everybody knows" is not evidence; many things everybody knew, like the Sun going round the Earth, were wrong. **Who acts:** Everybody, Sun, many things · **What happens:** know, not be, go, be · **To what, where:** evidence, many things, Earth · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Everybody, Sun, many things), 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:15 # text = "Everybody knows" is not evidence; many things everybody knew, like the Sun going round the Earth, were wrong. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 3 nsubj _ _ 3 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 csubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 parataxis _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 9 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 11 everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 12 nsubj _ _ 12 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 like like SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 advcl _ _ 18 round round ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23: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 | **know** *in a quote* | present | Everybody | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | | evidence | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **know** | past | everybody | many things *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | | 4 | **go** | gerund | the Sun | | | the Earth | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round earth=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **is** | past | many things | | | | | wrong *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. 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