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title: Vague words like «and stuff» or «things» do not count as an answer;… — Retrieval: finding the answer in the text · tree and pragmatics
description: Vague words like «and stuff» or «things» do not count as an answer; give the exact details. Who acts: Vague words. A sentence of the lesson «Retrieval: finding the answer in the text» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Retrieval: finding the answer in the text, sentence 23

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Vague words like «and stuff» or «things» do not count as an answer; give the exact details.

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**Who acts:** Vague words · **What happens:** not count, give · **To what, where:** exact details

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Retrieval: finding the answer in the text» 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 (Vague words), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:017-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text.lesson:23
# text = Vague words like «and stuff» or «things» do not count as an answer; give the exact details.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 017-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text.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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Vague	vague	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:dep
6	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **count** | present · do-support | Vague words like stuff or things |  |  |  |  | as a answer | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as answer=Attribute |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive |  | the exact details |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Theme |

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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:017-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text.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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×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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