--- title: Aroha's friend said she'd seen a famous singer in a supermarket in A… — The check that settles it · tree and pragmatics description: Aroha's friend said she'd seen a famous singer in a supermarket in Auckland; the singer's posts showed she was in London that day. Who acts: friend, posts. 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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 (friend, posts), 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:23 # text = Aroha's friend said she'd seen a famous singer in a supermarket in Auckland; the singer's posts showed she was in London that day. # 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 1 Aroha Aroha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 'd have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 singer singer NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 supermarket supermarket NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Auckland Auckland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 singer singer NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 posts post NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 ccomp _ _ 26 that that DET DT PronType=Dem 27 det _ _ 27 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Aroha's friend | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **see** | past · perfect | friend | a famous singer | | a supermarket in Auckland | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer singer=Stimulus | | 3 | **show** | past | the singer's posts | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | past | friend | | | London | day | | tree rules | 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:23`. **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. **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: [The check that settles it, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/451-the-check-that-settles-it/22/) - next →: [The check that settles it, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/451-the-check-that-settles-it/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/451-the-check-that-settles-it/)