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title: A winter garden looks empty, but fresh snow tells on everyone: in th… — The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: A winter garden looks empty, but fresh snow tells on everyone: in the morning it is like a page where the night's visitors wrote their names with their feet. Who acts: winter garden, fresh snow, snow, visitors. A sentence of the lesson «The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sl
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# The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where, sentence 0

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A winter garden looks empty, but fresh snow tells on everyone: in the morning it is like a page where the night's visitors wrote their names with their feet.

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**Who acts:** winter garden, fresh snow, snow, visitors · **What happens:** look, tell, be, write, name · **To what, where:** everyone, names · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where» of the biology 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 (winter garden, fresh snow, snow, visitors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where.lesson:0
# text = A winter garden looks empty, but fresh snow tells on everyone: in the morning it is like a page where the night's visitors wrote their names with their feet.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	obl	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advcl
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **look** | present | a winter garden |  |  |  |  | empty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | fresh snow |  |  | everyone |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | snow |  |  |  | morning | like a page | tree rules |
| 4 | **write** | past | the night's visitors | visitors's names |  |  |  | with visitors's feet | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 5 | **name** |  | visitors *= visitor* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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