The check that settles it, sentence 29

One boy used the three questions on his big brother at home, who didn't like it at all.

Who acts: One boy, big brother · What happens: use, not like · To what, where: three questions, home, look, all

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 (One boy, big brother), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 boy	nummod
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 used	nsubj
3	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 questions	det
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 questions	nummod
6	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 used	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 brother	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brother	nmod:poss
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 brother	amod
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 used	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 home	case
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 used	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 like	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 like	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 like	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 like	advmod
17	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 brother	acl:relcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 like	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 like	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 used	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	use	past	One boy	the three questions		home		on boy's big brother	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Patient
2	not like	past · do-support	boy's big brother	look		all			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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:29.

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. 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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