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title: Usually the facts are small and boring: a car, a van, an ambulance,… — Our street: who parked where and who won what · tree and pragmatics
description: Usually the facts are small and boring: a car, a van, an ambulance, a police car for twenty minutes. Who acts: facts. A sentence of the lesson «Our street: who parked where and who won what» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Our street: who parked where and who won what, sentence 12

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Usually the facts are small and boring: a car, a van, an ambulance, a police car for twenty minutes.

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**Who acts:** facts · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: who parked where and who won what» of the adult life 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 (facts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:041-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what.lesson:12
# text = Usually the facts are small and boring: a car, a van, an ambulance, a police car for twenty minutes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 041-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what.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 ×2
1	Usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	boring	bore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	van	van	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ambulance	ambulance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	police	police	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:parataxis
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | the facts |  |  |  |  | small, usually *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the facts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:adult-life:041-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what.lesson:12`.

**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 ×2. **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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