Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow, sentence 9

The best checks are simple: read the sign yourself, ask the person kindly, or say «I don't know» — it is allowed.

Who acts: best checks, I · What happens: be, read, ask, say, not know, allow · To what, where: sign, person · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow» of the adult life 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 (best checks, I), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 checks	det
2	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 checks	amod
3	checks	check	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 simple	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 simple	cop
5	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 read	punct
7	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 simple	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sign	det
9	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 read	obj
10	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 sign	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ask	punct
12	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 read	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 person	det
14	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ask	obj
15	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	12 ask	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 say	cc
18	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 read	conj
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 know	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 know	nsubj
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 know	aux
22	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 know	advmod
23	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 say	ccomp
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 know	punct
25	—	-	PUNCT	_	28 allowed	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 allowed	nsubj:pass
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 allowed	aux:pass
28	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 know	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 simple	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the best checks			simple property	tree rules
2	read	infinitive		the sign			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive			the person	kindly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent person=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not know in a quote	present · do-support	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	allow	present · passive		person			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

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:adult-life:042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.lesson:9.

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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