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title: Pulling out that one bar and playing it slowly fixes it. — Practising when you would rather not · tree and pragmatics
description: Pulling out that one bar and playing it slowly fixes it. Who acts: Pulling. A sentence of the lesson «Practising when you would rather not» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Practising when you would rather not, sentence 2

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Pulling out that one bar and playing it slowly fixes it.

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**Who acts:** Pulling · **What happens:** pull out, play, fix · **To what, where:** one bar, bar

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Practising when you would rather not» 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 (Pulling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:003-practising-when-you-would-rather-not.lesson:2
# text = Pulling out that one bar and playing it slowly fixes it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 003-practising-when-you-would-rather-not.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	Pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	csubj	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	fixes	fix	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **pull out** | gerund |  | that one bar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | gerund |  | bar |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **fix** | present | Pulling | bar |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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:arts:003-practising-when-you-would-rather-not.lesson:2`.

**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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