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title: Games, phones and apps keep records such as trophies, dates and hist… — The check that settles it · tree and pragmatics
description: Games, phones and apps keep records such as trophies, dates and history that can settle arguments. Who acts: Games, history. 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 34

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Games, phones and apps keep records such as trophies, dates and history that can settle arguments.

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**Who acts:** Games, history · **What happens:** keep, settle · **To what, where:** records, arguments

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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 (Games, history), 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:34
# text = Games, phones and apps keep records such as trophies, dates and history that can settle arguments.
# 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
1	Games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	apps	app	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	records	record	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	trophies	trophy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:appos
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	arguments	argument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **keep** | present | Games and phones and apps | records |  |  |  | such trophies and dates and history | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=Theme |
| 2 | **settle** | can | history | arguments |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme argument=Location |

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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:34`.

**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. **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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