The check that settles it, sentence 30
Someone who refuses a simple check, like «let's ask Mum», may be hiding a lie.
Who acts: 's, Someone · What happens: refuse, let, ask, hide · To what, where: simple check, 's, Mum, lie · 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, Someone), 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 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 hiding | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 refuses | nsubj |
| 3 | refuses | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Someone | acl:relcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 check | det |
| 5 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 check | amod |
| 6 | check | check | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 refuses | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 « | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 let | dep |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 refuses | ccomp |
| 11 | 's | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ask | obj |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Someone | punct |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 hiding | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 hiding | aux |
| 18 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 lie | det |
| 20 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hiding | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 hiding | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | present | a simple check | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | 's | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | 's not said here | Mum | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | hide | may · progressive | Someone | a lie | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Patient |
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:30.
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): R6-punct-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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