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title: Can or not, ah?» — Singapore English for «Can I?». — The copier and the one who competes at everything · tree and pragmatics
description: Can or not, ah?» — Singapore English for «Can I?». A sentence of the lesson «The copier and the one who competes at everything» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The copier and the one who competes at everything, sentence 21

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Can or not, ah?» — Singapore English for «Can I?».

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The copier and the one who competes at everything» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything.lesson:21
# text = Can or not, ah?» — Singapore English for «Can I?».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything.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	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
9	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	appos	_	_
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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:469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything.lesson:21`.

**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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