--- title: A free reader chooses any book from the library instead of banded bo… — Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home · tree and pragmatics description: A free reader chooses any book from the library instead of banded books, and still needs to read a little every day. Who acts: free reader. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (free reader), 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:23 # text = A free reader chooses any book from the library instead of banded books, and still needs to read a little every day. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 reader reader NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 chooses choose VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 6 det _ _ 6 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 library library NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 13 case _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 10 fixed _ _ 12 banded band VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 13 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 still still ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 little little NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 . . 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 | **choose** | present | a free reader | any book | | the library | | instead banded books | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent book=Theme from library=Source | | 2 | **band** | participle | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **need** | present | a free reader *not said here* | | | | still | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **read** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a free reader *not said here* | a little | | | day | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Topic | 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:23`. **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. 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