--- title: Reading for pleasure means reading because you want to, not because… — Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home · tree and pragmatics description: Reading for pleasure means reading because you want to, not because somebody told you to. Who acts: Reading, you, somebody. A sentence of the lesson «Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Reading for pleasure and the reading b…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/) / 0 # Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home, sentence 0 Reading for pleasure means reading because you want to, not because somebody told you to. **Who acts:** Reading, you, somebody · **What happens:** read, mean, want, not tell · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home» 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 (Reading, you, somebody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:016-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home.lesson:0 # text = Reading for pleasure means reading because you want to, not because somebody told you to. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 016-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Reading read VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj 2 for for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 reading read VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 obj _ _ 6 because because SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 8 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 12 because because SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 somebody somebody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 nsubj _ _ 14 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 14 xcomp _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | gerund | | | | | | for pleasure | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | Reading | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **read** | gerund | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **want** | present | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | past | somebody | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | 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:english:016-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home.lesson:0`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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