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title: It can be a comic under the covers, a gaming guide, a joke book, a f… — Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home · tree and pragmatics
description: It can be a comic under the covers, a gaming guide, a joke book, a fat fantasy novel or an audiobook on a long car ride. Who acts: pleasure. 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 pr
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# Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home, sentence 1

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It can be a comic under the covers, a gaming guide, a joke book, a fat fantasy novel or an audiobook on a long car ride.

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**Who acts:** pleasure · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** comic, covers

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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 (pleasure), 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:1
# text = It can be a comic under the covers, a gaming guide, a joke book, a fat fantasy novel or an audiobook on a long car ride.
# 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): no change
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	comic	comic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	covers	cover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	gaming	gaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	guide	guide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	fantasy	fantasy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	novel	novel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	audiobook	audiobook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | can | pleasure | a comic and a fat fantasy novel or a audiobook on a long car ride |  | the covers  a gaming guide and a joke book |  |  | tree rules |

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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:016-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home.lesson:1`.

**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): no change. **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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