--- title: Reading for pleasure means choosing to read because you enjoy it. — Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home · tree and pragmatics description: Reading for pleasure means choosing to read because you enjoy it. Who acts: Reading, you. 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 clause. --- [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/14/) [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/) / 14 # Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home, sentence 14 Reading for pleasure means choosing to read because you enjoy it. **Who acts:** Reading, you · **What happens:** read, mean, choose, enjoy · **To what, where:** pleasure · **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), 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:14 # text = Reading for pleasure means choosing to read because you enjoy it. # 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 ×1 1 Reading read VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj 2 for for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 choosing choose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 ccomp _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 enjoy enjoy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 . . 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 clause=Topic | | 3 | **choose** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **read** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **enjoy** | present | you | pleasure | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | 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: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): R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Reading for pleasure and the reading b…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/11/) - next →: [Reading for pleasure and the reading b…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/)