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title: Talking about books and swapping them with friends makes reading mor… — Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Talking about books and swapping them with friends makes reading more fun. Who acts: Talking. 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.
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# Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home, sentence 24

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Talking about books and swapping them with friends makes reading more fun.

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**Who acts:** Talking · **What happens:** talk, swap, make, read · **To what, where:** words, more fun

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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 (Talking), 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:24
# text = Talking about books and swapping them with friends makes reading more fun.
# 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	Talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	swapping	swap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about books | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about book=Topic |
| 2 | **swap** | gerund |  | words *= word* |  |  |  | with friends | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent they=Theme with friend=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **make** | present | Talking |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **read** | gerund | Talking *not said here* | more fun |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=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:24`.

**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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