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title: One trick, like sitting, can't show that a dog is the smartest of mi… — "How do you know?" · tree and pragmatics
description: One trick, like sitting, can't show that a dog is the smartest of millions of dogs. Who acts: One trick, dog. A sentence of the lesson «"How do you know?"» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# "How do you know?", sentence 11

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One trick, like sitting, can't show that a dog is the smartest of millions of dogs.

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**Who acts:** One trick, dog · **What happens:** sit, not show, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «"How do you know?"» 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 (One trick, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:186-how-do-you-know.lesson:11
# text = One trick, like sitting, can't show that a dog is the smartest of millions of dogs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 186-how-do-you-know.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	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	smartest	smart	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	ccomp	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **show** | can | One trick |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | a dog |  |  |  |  | of millions of dogs; smart *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:world:186-how-do-you-know.lesson:11`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×2. **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/).

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