The check that settles it, sentence 1

Ella asked anyway; Mum said «Share it.» Ruby's teacher showed the class three questions that settle almost any claim: How do you know?

Who acts: Ella, Mum, teacher, three questions, you · What happens: ask, say, share, show, settle, know · To what, where: cake, three questions, class, claim · 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 (Ella, Mum, teacher, three questions), 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	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	2 asked	advmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
5	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	parataxis
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 Share	punct
8	Share	share	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 Share	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 Share	punct
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 Share	punct
12	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 teacher	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Ruby	case
14	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 showed	nsubj
15	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 class	det
17	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 showed	iobj
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 questions	nummod
19	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 showed	obj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 settle	nsubj
21	settle	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 questions	acl:relcl
22	almost	almost	ADV	_	24 claim	advmod
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 claim	det
24	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 settle	obj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 know	punct
26	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 know	advmod
27	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 know	aux
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 know	nsubj
29	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asked	parataxis
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Ella			anyway property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Mum				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	share in a quote	infinitive		cake			tree rules
4	show	past	Ruby's teacher	three questions	the class		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent class=Recipient question=Topic
5	settle	present	three questions	any claim			vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme claim=Location
6	know	present · do-support	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:1.

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 ×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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