--- title: A check can prove someone right as well as wrong. — The check that settles it · tree and pragmatics description: A check can prove someone right as well as wrong. Who acts: 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/451-the-check-that-settles-it/40/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [The check that settles it](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/451-the-check-that-settles-it/) / 40 # The check that settles it, sentence 40 A check can prove someone right as well as wrong. **Who acts:** check · **What happens:** prove · **To what, where:** someone 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 (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:40 # text = A check can prove someone right as well as wrong. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 check check NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 prove prove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obj _ _ 6 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 7 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 10 cc _ _ 8 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 fixed _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 10 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 11 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **prove** | can | a check | someone | | | | right *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | 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:40`. **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): no change. **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, 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/451-the-check-that-settles-it/39/) - next →: [The check that settles it, 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/451-the-check-that-settles-it/42/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/451-the-check-that-settles-it/)