The check that settles it, sentence 40
A check can prove someone right as well as wrong.
Who acts: check · What happens: prove · To what, where: someone
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 (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 | 2 check | det |
| 2 | check | check | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prove | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 prove | aux |
| 4 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 prove | obj |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 prove | xcomp |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 10 wrong | cc |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 as | fixed |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 as | fixed |
| 10 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 right | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 prove | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | can | a check | someone | right property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=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.
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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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