The check that settles it, sentence 18
Ben's little sister said she'd already fed the cat.
Who acts: little sister, sister · What happens: say, feed · To what, where: cat · 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 (little sister, sister), 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 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ben | case |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sister | amod |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fed | nsubj |
| 7 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fed | aux |
| 8 | already | already | ADV | _ | 9 fed | advmod |
| 9 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cat | det |
| 11 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fed | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Ben's little sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | feed | past · perfect | sister | the cat | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient |
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:18.
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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