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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 (Mum, That), 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:5 # text = Mum turns the sound down, finds the country on the map with him and says, "That's thousands of miles away, love. # 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): no change 1 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 down down ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 19 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 nsubj _ _ 20 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 21 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 24 away away ADV RB _ 16 ccomp _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn down** | present | Mum | the sound | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme | | 2 | **find** | present | Mum *not said here* | the country | | the map | | with Ollie | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mum *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | That | | | | | thousands of miles *obl:unmarked*; love *obl*; away *property* | 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:5`. **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. 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