The check that settles it, sentence 9

Still counts as research.» Max's friend said the teacher said there was no homework; Max checked the class website — there was.

Who acts: friend, teacher, homework, Max · What happens: count, say, be, check · To what, where: class website · 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 (friend, teacher, homework, Max), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	2 counts	advmod
2	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 research	case
4	research	research	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 counts	obl
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 counts	punct
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 counts	punct
7	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 friend	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Max	case
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 teacher	det
12	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 was	expl
15	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 homework	det
17	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 was	nsubj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 checked	punct
19	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 checked	nsubj
20	checked	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 website	det
22	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 website	compound
23	website	website	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 checked	obj
24	—	-	PUNCT	_	20 checked	punct
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 was	expl
26	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 checked	parataxis
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present				still	as research	vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as research=Attribute
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Max's friend					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the teacher					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	be in a quote	past	no homework		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	check in a quote	past	Max	the class website				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent website=Theme
6	be in a quote	past			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:9.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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