The check that settles it, sentence 36
A video or photo of an event can settle what memory cannot.
Who acts: video · What happens: settle · To what, where: memory
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 (video), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 video | det |
| 2 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 settle | nsubj |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 photo | cc |
| 4 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 video | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 event | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 event | det |
| 7 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 video | nmod |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 settle | aux |
| 9 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 11 memory | det |
| 11 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 settle | obj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 memory | acl:relcl |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 can | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 settle | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | can | a video of a event or photo | what memory | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme memory=Location |
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:36.
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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