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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 (Still Magic, Cave, little wee mouse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:095-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself.lesson:14 # text = The Still Magic is «not a Singing Magic»; the Cave grows so still that «a little wee-wee mouse crept out of a corner». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 095-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Still Still PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Magic Magic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Singing sing VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 amod _ _ 9 Magic magic NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod 16 still still ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 20 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 21 wee wee NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:compound 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 wee wee ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 26 out out ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 26 fixed _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3: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 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | the Still Magic | a Singing Magic | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **grow** | present | the Cave | | | | still | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **creep out** *in a quote* | past | a little wee mouse | a corner | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location corner=Theme | 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:books:095-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself.lesson:14`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-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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