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title: «Business» is busy + ness, with the y changed to i. — Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Business» is busy + ness, with the y changed to i. Who acts: Business, y. A sentence of the lesson «Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea)» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea), sentence 21

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«Business» is busy + ness, with the y changed to i.

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**Who acts:** Business, y · **What happens:** be, change · **To what, where:** busy + ness

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea)» of the english 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 (Business, y), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:013-words-to-know-years-3-4.lesson:21
# text = «Business» is busy + ness, with the y changed to i.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 013-words-to-know-years-3-4.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	+	+	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ness	ness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	y	y	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	obl	_	_
```

## 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 | **is a** | present | Business | busy + ness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | past | the y |  |  |  |  | to i. *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to i.=Result |

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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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**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:english:013-words-to-know-years-3-4.lesson:21`.

**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): R8-pos-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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