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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: who acts (Jan, tree, soil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air.lesson:10 # text = In the 1600s Jan van Helmont grew a willow in a pot for five years; the tree gained a lot of weight but the soil lost hardly any. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air.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 ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 1600s 1600 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 4 Jan January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 van Van PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 6 Helmont Helmont PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 7 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 willow willow NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 gained gain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 28 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 27 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | Jan | a willow | | the 1600s | year | in a pot | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location willow=Theme | | 2 | **gain** | past | the tree | a lot of weight | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | | 3 | **lose** | past | the soil | any | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Eventuality | 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:biology:251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air.lesson:10`. **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 ×1. **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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