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title: Some inference questions have more than one sensible answer, as long… — Inference: reading between the lines · tree and pragmatics
description: Some inference questions have more than one sensible answer, as long as each fits the clues. Who acts: inference questions, each. 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 20

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Some inference questions have more than one sensible answer, as long as each fits the clues.

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**Who acts:** inference questions, each · **What happens:** have, fit · **To what, where:** one sensible answer, clues

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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 (inference questions, each), 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:20
# text = Some inference questions have more than one sensible answer, as long as each fits the clues.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	inference	inference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	7	advmod	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
15	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	clues	clue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | some inference questions | one sensible answer |  |  |  | long *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Patient |
| 2 | **fit** | present | each | the clues |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Patient |

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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:20`.

**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, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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