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title: «It were me, you donut!» («It were» is Yorkshire for «it was».) A ki… — The check that settles it · tree and pragmatics
description: «It were me, you donut!» («It were» is Yorkshire for «it was».) A kid had filmed it on a tablet: it went in off Liam's knee, and everyone howled. Who acts: goal, kid, everyone. A sentence of the lesson «The check that settles it» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# The check that settles it, sentence 11

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«It were me, you donut!» («It were» is Yorkshire for «it was».) A kid had filmed it on a tablet: it went in off Liam's knee, and everyone howled.

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**Who acts:** goal, kid, everyone · **What happens:** be, film, go in, howl · **To what, where:** Two lads, Yorkshire, goal, tablet, knee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (goal, kid, everyone), 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:11
# text = «It were me, you donut!» («It were» is Yorkshire for «it was».) A kid had filmed it on a tablet: it went in off Liam's knee, and everyone howled.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	parataxis	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	dep	_	_
7	donut	donut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
12	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advcl
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	Yorkshire	Yorkshire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:appos
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
24	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	filmed	film	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
35	in	in	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	off	off	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	Liam	Liam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	's	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	43	nsubj	_	_
43	howled	howl	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | goal | Two lads in Leeds *= lad* |  |  |  | donut *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | Yorkshire |  |  |  | for goal | tree rules |
| 3 | **film** | past · perfect | a kid | goal |  | a tablet |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go in** | past | goal |  |  | Liam's knee |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme off knee=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **howl** | past | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:451-the-check-that-settles-it.lesson:11`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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