The check that settles it, sentence 4
A two-second check beats a twenty-minute argument.
Who acts: second check · What happens: beat · To what, where: minute argument
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 (second 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 check | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 second | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 two | punct |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 check | amod |
| 5 | check | check | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beats | nsubj |
| 6 | beats | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 argument | det |
| 8 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 minute | nummod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 twenty | punct |
| 10 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 argument | compound |
| 11 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beats | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 beats | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | present | a second check | a minute argument | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location argument=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:4.
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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