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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:7 # text = Michael Jackson's album Thriller, from 1982, is widely reported as the best-selling album of all time, usually estimated at around 70 million copies, not a billion. # 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): no change 1 Michael Michael PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 2 Jackson Jackson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 4 album album NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 Thriller thriller PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 1982 1982 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nmod:unmarked _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 11 widely widely ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 15 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 18 amod _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 selling sell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 amod _ _ 18 album album NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 usually usually ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 estimated estimate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 around around ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 70 70 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 compound _ _ 28 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 copies copy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 billion billion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 appos _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **report** | present · passive | | Michael's album from 1982 | | | | as the best selling album of all time; widely *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as album=Attribute | | 2 | **sell** | gerund | | | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **estimate** | participle | | | | million copies | | usually *property* | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at copy=Value | 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. **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:006-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record.lesson:7`. **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. 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