The check that settles it, sentence 24
They laughed: «Must've been her twin, eh.» Her friend wasn't lying — just mistaken.
Who acts: Lots, friend · What happens: laugh, be, not lie · To what, where: twin · 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 (Lots, friend), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 laughed | nsubj |
| 2 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 twin | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 twin | punct |
| 5 | Must | must | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 twin | aux |
| 6 | 've | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 twin | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 twin | cop |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 twin | nmod:poss |
| 9 | twin | twin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 laughed | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 twin | punct |
| 11 | eh | eh | INTJ | Number=Sing | 9 twin | discourse |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laughed | punct |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 twin | punct |
| 14 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 friend | nmod:poss |
| 15 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lying | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lying | aux |
| 17 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 lying | advmod |
| 18 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 laughed | advcl |
| 19 | — | — | PUNCT | _ | 21 mistaken | punct |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 mistaken | advmod |
| 21 | mistaken | mistaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lying | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | Lots = lot | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | must · perfect | Lots = lot not said here | friend's twin | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not lie | past · progressive | friend's friend | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:24.
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 ×2, 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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