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title: The kind fix is nearly always the same: a polite word, a knock, a wa… — Our street: who parked where and who won what · tree and pragmatics
description: The kind fix is nearly always the same: a polite word, a knock, a wave, an offer of help — instead of a week of whispering. Who acts: kind fix. 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 
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# Our street: who parked where and who won what, sentence 14

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The kind fix is nearly always the same: a polite word, a knock, a wave, an offer of help — instead of a week of whispering.

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**Who acts:** kind fix · **What happens:** be, offer · **To what, where:** help

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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 (kind fix), 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:14
# text = The kind fix is nearly always the same: a polite word, a knock, a wave, an offer of help — instead of a week of whispering.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fix	fix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	knock	knock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
25	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	28	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	whispering	whispering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the kind fix |  |  |  |  | always, same *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **offer** |  |  | help |  |  |  |  | nom offer «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:14`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×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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