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title: «Can or not?» asked Mum — Singapore talk for «yes or no?» — and he d… — When the story falls apart · tree and pragmatics
description: «Can or not?» asked Mum — Singapore talk for «yes or no?» — and he did the quiz at home. Who acts: Mum, homework. A sentence of the lesson «When the story falls apart» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# When the story falls apart, sentence 16

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«Can or not?» asked Mum — Singapore talk for «yes or no?» — and he did the quiz at home.

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**Who acts:** Mum, homework · **What happens:** ask, do · **To what, where:** quiz, home

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When the story falls apart» 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 (Mum, homework), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:431-when-the-story-falls-apart.lesson:16
# text = «Can or not?» asked Mum — Singapore talk for «yes or no?» — and he did the quiz at home.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 431-when-the-story-falls-apart.lesson
# annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
2	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	conj	_	_
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
7	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
10	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:appos
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	16	discourse	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	11	nmod	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
19	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	quiz	quiz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | can | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | past | homework | the quiz |  | home |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quiz=Eventuality |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:431-when-the-story-falls-apart.lesson:16`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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