The check that settles it, sentence 21
Josh said he'd tidied the garage; Dad didn't argue, he just went and looked — tidy!
Who acts: Josh, Dad · What happens: say, tidy, not argue, go, look · To what, where: garage, tidy · 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 (Josh, Dad), 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 | Josh | Josh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tidied | nsubj |
| 4 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tidied | aux |
| 5 | tidied | tidy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 said | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 garage | det |
| 7 | garage | garage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tidied | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 argue | punct |
| 9 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 argue | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 argue | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 argue | advmod |
| 12 | argue | argue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 argue | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 looked | cc |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 went | conj |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 tidy | punct |
| 20 | tidy | tidy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looked | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Josh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | tidy | past · perfect | Josh | the garage | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not argue speech: disagree | past · do-support | Dad | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | past | Dad | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look | past | Dad not said here | tidy | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:21.
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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