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title: Kai picks a library book far too hard, and the librarian says, «Try… — Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Kai picks a library book far too hard, and the librarian says, «Try five fingers.» Open a page in the middle and read it; put up one finger for each word you can't read or don't understand. Who acts: Kai, librarian, you. A sentence of the lesson «Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home» of
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# Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home, sentence 6

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Kai picks a library book far too hard, and the librarian says, «Try five fingers.» Open a page in the middle and read it; put up one finger for each word you can't read or don't understand.

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**Who acts:** Kai, librarian, you · **What happens:** pick, say, try, open, read, put up · **To what, where:** library book, five fingers, page, middle, book, one finger · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Kai, librarian, 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:6
# text = Kai picks a library book far too hard, and the librarian says, «Try five fingers.» Open a page in the middle and read it; put up one finger for each word you can't read or don't understand.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	picks	pick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	librarian	librarian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
17	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
21	Open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
31	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	det	_	_
37	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:nmod
38	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	acl:relcl	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	aux	_	_
44	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
45	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	conj	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **pick** | present | Kai | a library book |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the librarian |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **try** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | five fingers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **open** | infinitive |  | a page |  | the middle |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent page=Theme in middle=Location |
| 5 | **read** | infinitive |  | book |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 6 | **put up** | participle |  | one finger |  |  |  | for each word | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent finger=Goal |
| 7 | **not** **read** | can | you | each word *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 8 | **not** **understand** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×2. **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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