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title: A good reader is a detective: find the clues, then say what they show. — Inference: reading between the lines · tree and pragmatics
description: A good reader is a detective: find the clues, then say what they show. Who acts: good reader, clues. A sentence of the lesson «Inference: reading between the lines» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Inference: reading between the lines, sentence 2

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A good reader is a detective: find the clues, then say what they show.

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**Who acts:** good reader, clues · **What happens:** be, find, say, show · **To what, where:** detective, clues · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Inference: reading between the lines» 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 (good reader, clues), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:018-inference-reading-between-the-lines.lesson:2
# text = A good reader is a detective: find the clues, then say what they show.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 018-inference-reading-between-the-lines.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	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	detective	detective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	clues	clue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	.	.	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 a** | present | a good reader | a detective |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | infinitive |  | the clues |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **show** | present | clues *= clue* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |

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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:018-inference-reading-between-the-lines.lesson:2`.

**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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