--- title: Ella's brother said, «Mum said I can have the last cake.» Ella said,… — The check that settles it · tree and pragmatics description: Ella's brother said, «Mum said I can have the last cake.» Ella said, «Let's ask her.» «Er, no — she's busy.» The person who is lying often doesn't want you to check. Who acts: brother, Mum, Ella, 's. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, Mum, Ella, 's), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:451-the-check-that-settles-it.lesson:0 # text = Ella's brother said, «Mum said I can have the last cake.» Ella said, «Let's ask her.» «Er, no — she's busy.» The person who is lying often doesn't want you to check. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 451-the-check-that-settles-it.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Ella Ella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_ 7 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_ 17 Ella Ella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_ 21 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:parataxis 22 's we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 28 Er Er INTJ UH Number=Sing 11 discourse _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 34 discourse _ _ 31 — - PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 37 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 39 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 acl:relcl _ _ 42 often often ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 43 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 44 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 45 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 46 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ _ 47 to to PART TO _ 48 mark _ _ 48 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 xcomp _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ella's brother | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Mum | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | can | Ella's brother *= brother* | the last cake | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ella | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | 's | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* | | Ella | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Mum | | | | | busy *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **lie** | present · progressive | the person | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | the person | you | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **check** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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](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:451-the-check-that-settles-it.lesson:0`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Too many details, too few, 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/450-too-many-details-too-few/47/) - next →: [The check that settles it, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/451-the-check-that-settles-it/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/451-the-check-that-settles-it/)