The check that settles it, sentence 17
A check isn't only for catching liars.
Who acts: check · What happens: catch, not be
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 (check), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 check | det |
| 2 | check | check | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 liars | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 liars | cop |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 liars | advmod |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 liars | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 liars | case |
| 7 | catching | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 liars | amod |
| 8 | liars | liar | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 liars | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | gerund | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not is | present | a check | for catching liars | tree rules |
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:17.
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.
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