The check that settles it, sentence 35
Official sources, like a class website or a notice board, are better than rumours.
Who acts: Official sources · What happens: be
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 (Official sources), 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 | Official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sources | amod |
| 2 | sources | source | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 better | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 website | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 website | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 website | det |
| 6 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 website | compound |
| 7 | website | website | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sources | nmod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 board | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 board | det |
| 10 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 board | compound |
| 11 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 website | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sources | punct |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 better | cop |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 rumours | case |
| 16 | rumours | rumour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 better | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 better | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Official sources like a class website or a notice board | than rumours; good property | tree rules |
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:35.
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): no change. 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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