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title: He went red: «Okay, I watched someone do it on YouTube.» Kai laughed… — The check that settles it · tree and pragmatics
description: He went red: «Okay, I watched someone do it on YouTube.» Kai laughed: «Fair, mate. Who acts: mate, Mum, someone, Kai. 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 8

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He went red: «Okay, I watched someone do it on YouTube.» Kai laughed: «Fair, mate.

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**Who acts:** mate, Mum, someone, Kai · **What happens:** go, watch, do, laugh · **To what, where:** someone, boss, YouTube · **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 (mate, Mum, someone, Kai), 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:8
# text = He went red: «Okay, I watched someone do it on YouTube.» Kai laughed: «Fair, mate.
# 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	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
6	Okay	okay	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	YouTube	YouTube	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
17	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	parataxis	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	vocative	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **go** | past | mate |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **watch** *in a quote* | past | Mum | someone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | someone *not said here* | boss |  | YouTube |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 4 | **laugh** | past | Kai |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:8`.

**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/).

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