The check that settles it, sentence 8
He went red: «Okay, I watched someone do it on YouTube.» Kai laughed: «Fair, mate.
Who acts: mate, Mum, someone, Kai · What happens: go, watch, do, laugh · To what, where: someone, boss, YouTube · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mate, Mum, someone, Kai), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | xcomp |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 watched | punct |
| 6 | Okay | okay | INTJ | _ | 9 watched | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Okay | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 watched | nsubj |
| 9 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 10 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 watched | obj |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 watched | xcomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 do | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 YouTube | case |
| 14 | YouTube | YouTube | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 laughed | punct |
| 17 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 laughed | nsubj |
| 18 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 laughed | punct |
| 20 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 Fair | punct |
| 21 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 laughed | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Fair | punct |
| 23 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Fair | vocative |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | mate | red property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | watch in a quote | past | Mum | someone | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | infinitive | someone not said here | boss | YouTube | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | laugh | past | Kai | 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:8.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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