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title: Public record means things anyone can check, like release dates, cha… — Charts, number ones and famous musicians as publ… · tree and pragmatics
description: Public record means things anyone can check, like release dates, chart positions, sales estimates and awards; "the best band ever" is not on that list, because "best" is an opinion and only counts and dates are facts. Who acts: Public record, anyone, best band, best. A sentence of the lesson «Charts
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# Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record, sentence 1

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Public record means things anyone can check, like release dates, chart positions, sales estimates and awards; "the best band ever" is not on that list, because "best" is an opinion and only counts and dates are facts.

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**Who acts:** Public record, anyone, best band, best, counts · **What happens:** mean, check, not be, be · **To what, where:** things, list, opinion, facts

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record» 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 (Public record, anyone, best band, best), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:006-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record.lesson:1
# text = Public record means things anyone can check, like release dates, chart positions, sales estimates and awards; "the best band ever" is not on that list, because "best" is an opinion and only counts and dates are facts.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 006-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	release	release	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	chart	chart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	positions	position	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	sales	sale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	compound	_	_
17	estimates	estimate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	awards	award	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
24	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
25	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	24	advmod	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
33	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
35	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	39	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:amod
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	advcl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	only	only	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
42	counts	count	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	_
45	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
46	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Public record | things and release dates and chart positions |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 2 | **check** | can | anyone | things and release dates and chart positions *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | the best band |  |  | that list |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | best | a opinion and facts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | counts and dates | facts |  |  |  |  | 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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**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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