The check that settles it, sentence 25
Even honest people remember things wrongly; evidence settles what memory can't.
Who acts: honest people, evidence · What happens: remember, settle · To what, where: things
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 (honest people, evidence), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 2 honest | advmod |
| 2 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 remember | nsubj |
| 4 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 remember | obj |
| 6 | wrongly | wrongly | ADV | _ | 4 remember | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 settles | punct |
| 8 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 settles | nsubj |
| 9 | settles | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 remember | parataxis |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 settles | obj |
| 11 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ca | nsubj |
| 12 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 ca | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | present | honest people | things | wrongly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | |||
| 2 | settle | present | evidence | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme what=Location |
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:25.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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