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title: A good way to sort any bit of gossip is to ask four things. — Our street: who parked where and who won what · tree and pragmatics
description: A good way to sort any bit of gossip is to ask four things. Who acts: good way. 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 3

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A good way to sort any bit of gossip is to ask four things.

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**Who acts:** good way · **What happens:** sort, be, ask · **To what, where:** bit, four things

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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 (good way), 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:3
# text = A good way to sort any bit of gossip is to ask four things.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	sort	sort	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	gossip	gossip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **sort** | to-infinitive | a good way *not said here* | any bit of gossip |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | present | a good way |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | a good way *not said here* | four things |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient |

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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:3`.

**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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