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title: Photos have a history and a kindness side: the first photographs nee… — Photography and phone cameras · tree and pragmatics
description: Photos have a history and a kindness side: the first photographs needed hours to take, old film cameras held only 24 or 36 shots, and today you should ask before posting a picture of someone. Who acts: Photos, first photographs, old film cameras, you. A sentence of the lesson «Photography and phone 
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# Photography and phone cameras, sentence 3

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Photos have a history and a kindness side: the first photographs needed hours to take, old film cameras held only 24 or 36 shots, and today you should ask before posting a picture of someone.

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**Who acts:** Photos, first photographs, old film cameras, you · **What happens:** have, need, take, hold, ask, post · **To what, where:** history, 24 shots, picture

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Photography and phone cameras» of the arts 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 (Photos, first photographs, old film cameras, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:020-photography-and-phone-cameras.lesson:3
# text = Photos have a history and a kindness side: the first photographs needed hours to take, old film cameras held only 24 or 36 shots, and today you should ask before posting a picture of someone.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 020-photography-and-phone-cameras.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	Photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	photographs	photograph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	cameras	camera	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	36	36	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	conj	_	_
26	shots	shot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
33	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
34	posting	post	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	36	nmod	_	_
39	.	.	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 | **have** | present | Photos | a history and a kindness side |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Patient |
| 2 | **need** | past | the first photographs |  |  |  | hour |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive | the first photographs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hold** | past | old film cameras | 24 shots |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shot=Theme |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | should | you |  |  |  | today |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **post** | gerund | you *not said here* | a picture of someone |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme |

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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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**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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