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title: «Let's have a look» is the fairest check there is: no accusation, ju… — The check that settles it · tree and pragmatics
description: «Let's have a look» is the fairest check there is: no accusation, just eyes. Who acts: 's, fairest check. A sentence of the lesson «The check that settles it» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The check that settles it, sentence 27

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«Let's have a look» is the fairest check there is: no accusation, just eyes.

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**Who acts:** 's, fairest check · **What happens:** let, have, be · **To what, where:** 's, look, fairest check · **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 ('s, fairest check), 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:27
# text = «Let's have a look» is the fairest check there is: no accusation, just eyes.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	csubj	_	_
3	's	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	fairest	fair	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=AUX:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	accusation	accusation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | 's |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* | a look |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the fairest check |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | present | the fairest check *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:27`.

**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): R8-pos-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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