The copier and the one who competes at everything, sentence 21

Can or not, ah?» — Singapore English for «Can I?».

This is a sentence of the lesson «The copier and the one who competes at everything» 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: 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	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 English	parataxis
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 not	cc
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Can	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ah	punct
5	ah	ah	INTJ	_	10 English	discourse
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 ah	punct
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 ah	punct
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	5 ah	punct
9	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 English	compound
10	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 I	case
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 I	punct
13	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 I	aux
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 English	appos
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 I	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 I	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 English	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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:469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything.lesson:21.

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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