The check that settles it, sentence 26
So check calmly, not to catch someone, but to know.
Who acts: you · What happens: check, not catch, know · To what, where: someone
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 (you), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 check | advmod |
| 2 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 2 check | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 catch | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 catch | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 catch | mark |
| 7 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 check | advcl |
| 8 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 catch | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 know | cc |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 know | mark |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 catch | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 check | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | imperative | you not said here | calmly property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not catch | to-infinitive | you not said here | someone | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:26.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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