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title: Stars go on chat shows mainly to promote a new film, book or tour, a… — Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Stars go on chat shows mainly to promote a new film, book or tour, and their funny stories are often practised beforehand. Who acts: Stars. A sentence of the lesson «Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa, sentence 10

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Stars go on chat shows mainly to promote a new film, book or tour, and their funny stories are often practised beforehand.

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**Who acts:** Stars · **What happens:** go, promote, practise · **To what, where:** chat shows, new film, funny stories

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa» 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 (Stars), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.lesson:10
# text = Stars go on chat shows mainly to promote a new film, book or tour, and their funny stories are often practised beforehand.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	shows	show	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	promote	promote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	tour	tour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	often	often	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	practised	practise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
24	beforehand	beforehand	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **go** | present | Stars |  |  | chat shows |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on show=Location |
| 2 | **promote** | to-infinitive | Stars *not said here* | a new film and book or tour |  |  |  | mainly *property* | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Theme |
| 3 | **practise** | present · passive |  | Stars's funny stories |  |  |  | beforehand, often *property* | tree rules |

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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:053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.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): R3-conj-first ×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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