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title: A good rule for any famous family: say what was officially announced… — The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move… · tree and pragmatics
description: A good rule for any famous family: say what was officially announced or widely shown, call guesses guesses, and don't fill the blanks with your own story. A sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book» of the adult life course of Mova's
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# The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book, sentence 10

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A good rule for any famous family: say what was officially announced or widely shown, call guesses guesses, and don't fill the blanks with your own story.

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**What happens:** say, announce, show, not fill · **To what, where:** guesses guesses, blanks · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:044-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book.lesson:10
# text = A good rule for any famous family: say what was officially announced or widely shown, call guesses guesses, and don't fill the blanks with your own story.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 044-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	announced	announce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
18	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	guesses	guess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	compound	_	_
20	guesses	guess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
24	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	blanks	blank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9: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 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **announce** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | guesses guesses |  |  |  | officially *property* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | widely *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **fill** | infinitive · do-support |  | the blanks |  |  |  | with your own story | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent blank=Patient with story=Instrument |

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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:044-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book.lesson:10`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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