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title: One word can change a story completely: a wall that «fell down» is n… — Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation · tree and pragmatics
description: One word can change a story completely: a wall that «fell down» is not a wall that was «taken down». Who acts: One word, wall. A sentence of the lesson «Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation, sentence 19

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One word can change a story completely: a wall that «fell down» is not a wall that was «taken down».

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**Who acts:** One word, wall · **What happens:** change, fall down, not be, take down · **To what, where:** story, wall

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation» 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 (One word, wall), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:043-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation.lesson:19
# text = One word can change a story completely: a wall that «fell down» is not a wall that was «taken down».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 043-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obj
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **change** | can | One word | a story |  |  |  | completely *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient |
| 2 | **fall down** *in a quote* | past | a wall |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | a wall | a wall |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take down** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | a wall |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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:043-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation.lesson:19`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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