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title: Teachers know how their pupils usually write, so a sudden fancy styl… — The essay the teacher spotted · tree and pragmatics
description: Teachers know how their pupils usually write, so a sudden fancy style stands out. Who acts: Teachers, pupils, sudden fancy style. A sentence of the lesson «The essay the teacher spotted» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The essay the teacher spotted, sentence 8

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Teachers know how their pupils usually write, so a sudden fancy style stands out.

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**Who acts:** Teachers, pupils, sudden fancy style · **What happens:** know, write, stand out · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The essay the teacher spotted» of the ai 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 (Teachers, pupils, sudden fancy style), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:009-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted.lesson:8
# text = Teachers know how their pupils usually write, so a sudden fancy style stands out.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 009-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted.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	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	pupils	pupil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	write	write	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | Teachers |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **write** | present | Schools's pupils |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stand out** | present | a sudden fancy style |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:ai:009-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted.lesson:8`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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