--- title: A scientist starts with a question, makes a careful guess called a p… — Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evid… · tree and pragmatics description: A scientist starts with a question, makes a careful guess called a prediction, and then tests it to see whether the world agrees. Who acts: scientist, careful guess, world. A sentence of the lesson «Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence» of the world course of Mova's primary school wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/91-being-a-scientist/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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Being a scientist — fair tests, guesse…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/91-being-a-scientist/) / 0 # Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence, sentence 0 A scientist starts with a question, makes a careful guess called a prediction, and then tests it to see whether the world agrees. **Who acts:** scientist, careful guess, world · **What happens:** start, make, call, test, see, agree · **To what, where:** careful guess, prediction · **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 (scientist, careful guess, world), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:091-being-a-scientist.lesson:0 # text = A scientist starts with a question, makes a careful guess called a prediction, and then tests it to see whether the world agrees. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 091-being-a-scientist.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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 scientist scientist NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 guess guess NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 prediction prediction NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 18 tests test VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 22 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 agrees agree VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | present | a scientist | | | | | with a question | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with question=Subeventuality | | 2 | **make** | present | a scientist *not said here* | a careful guess | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset guess=Product | | 3 | **call** | participle | a careful guess *not said here* | a prediction | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prediction=Recipient | | 4 | **test** | present | a scientist *not said here* | prediction | | | then | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | a scientist *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | the world | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:world:091-being-a-scientist.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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Measuring the world — length, mass, ti…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/90-measuring-the-world/16/) - next →: [Being a scientist — fair tests, guesse…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/91-being-a-scientist/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/91-being-a-scientist/)