The check that settles it, sentence 0

Ella's brother said, «Mum said I can have the last cake.» Ella said, «Let's ask her.» «Er, no — she's busy.» The person who is lying often doesn't want you to check.

Who acts: brother, Mum, Ella, 's, person, you · What happens: say, have, let, ask, be, lie · To what, where: last cake, 's, Ella, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The check that settles it» of the everyday 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 (brother, Mum, Ella, 's), 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	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 brother	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ella	case
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cake	det
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cake	amod
14	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Let	punct
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 Let	punct
21	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
22	's	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 Let	obj
23	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 Let	xcomp
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ask	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
28	Er	Er	INTJ	Number=Sing	11 have	discourse
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 busy	punct
30	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	34 busy	discourse
31	—	-	PUNCT	_	34 busy	punct
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 busy	nsubj
33	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 busy	cop
34	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 have	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
36	»	»	PUNCT	_	38 person	punct
37	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 person	det
38	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 want	nsubj
39	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 lying	nsubj
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 lying	aux
41	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 person	acl:relcl
42	often	often	ADV	_	45 want	advmod
43	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 want	aux
44	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 want	advmod
45	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	parataxis
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 want	obj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 check	mark
48	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 want	xcomp
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: warn
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Ella's brother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Mum				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	can	Ella's brother = brother	the last cake			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	Ella				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	let in a quote	infinitive		's			tree rules
6	ask speech: ask in a quote	infinitive	's not said here		Ella		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
7	is in a quote	present	Mum			busy property	tree rules
8	lie	present · progressive	the person				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	not want	present · do-support	the person	you		often property	tree rules
10	check not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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, 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:everyday:451-the-check-that-settles-it.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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