The check that settles it, sentence 39
Scam texts sometimes pretend to be a child with a new phone asking for money; the check is to call the old number.
Who acts: Scam texts, new phone, check · What happens: pretend, be, ask · To what, where: child
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 (Scam texts, new phone, 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 | Scam | scam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 texts | compound |
| 2 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pretend | nsubj |
| 3 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 pretend | advmod |
| 4 | pretend | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 child | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 child | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 child | det |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pretend | xcomp |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 phone | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 phone | det |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 phone | amod |
| 12 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 child | nmod |
| 13 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 phone | acl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 money | case |
| 15 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asking | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 call | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 check | det |
| 18 | check | check | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 call | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 call | cop |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 call | mark |
| 21 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pretend | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 number | det |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 number | amod |
| 24 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 call | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pretend | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | present | Scam texts | sometimes property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | Scam texts not said here | a child | with a new phone | tree rules | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | gerund | a new phone not said here | for money | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the check | call 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:39.
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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