The check that settles it, sentence 23

Aroha's friend said she'd seen a famous singer in a supermarket in Auckland; the singer's posts showed she was in London that day.

Who acts: friend, posts · What happens: say, see, show, be · To what, where: famous singer, supermarket, London · 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 (friend, posts), 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	Aroha	Aroha	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 friend	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Aroha	case
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seen	nsubj
6	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seen	aux
7	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 singer	det
9	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 singer	amod
10	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seen	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 supermarket	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 supermarket	det
13	supermarket	supermarket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seen	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 Auckland	case
15	Auckland	Auckland	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 supermarket	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 showed	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 singer	det
18	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 posts	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 singer	case
20	posts	post	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 showed	nsubj
21	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	parataxis
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 London	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 London	cop
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 London	case
25	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 showed	ccomp
26	that	that	DET	PronType=Dem	27 day	det
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 London	obl:unmarked
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Aroha's friend				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see	past · perfect	friend	a famous singer	a supermarket in Auckland		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer singer=Stimulus
3	show	past	the singer's posts				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	friend		London	day	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:23.

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. 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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