The check that settles it, sentence 27
«Let's have a look» is the fairest check there is: no accusation, just eyes.
Who acts: 's, fairest check · What happens: let, have, be · To what, where: 's, look, fairest check · 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 ('s, fairest check), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 check | csubj |
| 3 | 's | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 look | det |
| 6 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 check | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 check | det |
| 10 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 check | amod |
| 11 | check | check | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 is | expl |
| 13 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 check | acl:relcl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 accusation | punct |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 accusation | det |
| 16 | accusation | accusation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 check | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 eyes | punct |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 eyes | advmod |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 accusation | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 check | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | 's | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | infinitive | 's not said here | a look | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the fairest check | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | present | the fairest check not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:27.
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): 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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