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title: Comics and graphic novels are real reading: you work out the story f… — Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Comics and graphic novels are real reading: you work out the story from the words and the pictures together. Who acts: Comics, 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 
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# Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home, sentence 16

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Comics and graphic novels are real reading: you work out the story from the words and the pictures together.

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**Who acts:** Comics, you · **What happens:** be, read, work out · **To what, where:** story, words

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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 (Comics, 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:16
# text = Comics and graphic novels are real reading: you work out the story from the words and the pictures together.
# 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	Comics	comic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	graphic	graphic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	novels	novel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	together	together	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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** | present | Comics and graphic novels |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **read** | gerund | Comics and graphic novels *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **work out** | present | you | the story |  | the words and the pictures |  | together *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic |

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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:16`.

**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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