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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Children, playground claim), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.lesson:17 # text = Children are never sent to fight in a war in countries like ours; a playground claim that "we'll all be called up" is a rumour. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 ours our PRON PRP Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 playground playground NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 claim claim NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 20 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 21 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 22 all all ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 25 up up ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 rumour rumour NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **send** | present · passive | | Children | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fight** | to-infinitive | Children *not said here* | | | a war | | in countries like ours | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call up** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future · passive | | we | | | | all *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 4 | **is a** | present | a playground claim | a rumour | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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:051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.lesson:17`. **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 ×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. 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