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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 (you, Rat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:031-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop.lesson:4 # text = Talk about your old river!» The Rat says quietly that he doesn't talk about his river — but he thinks about it all the time. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 031-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Talk talk VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 about about ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 8 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advcl 11 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 17 about about ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 — - PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 24 about about ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 26 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 28 det:predet _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | about your old river | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | the Rat | | | | | quietly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **talk** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Rat | | | | | about Rat's river | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about river=Topic | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | Rat | | | | time | about river | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | 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. 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