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title: A prediction is a sensible guess about what will happen next, built… — Prediction: what happens next · tree and pragmatics
description: A prediction is a sensible guess about what will happen next, built from clues in the text and from what you know about stories. Who acts: prediction, sensible guess, you. A sentence of the lesson «Prediction: what happens next» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Prediction: what happens next, sentence 0

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A prediction is a sensible guess about what will happen next, built from clues in the text and from what you know about stories.

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**Who acts:** prediction, sensible guess, you · **What happens:** be, happen, build, know · **To what, where:** sensible guess, clues

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Prediction: what happens next» 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 (prediction, sensible guess, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:019-prediction-what-happens-next.lesson:0
# text = A prediction is a sensible guess about what will happen next, built from clues in the text and from what you know about stories.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 019-prediction-what-happens-next.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	2	det	_	_
2	prediction	prediction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	guess	guess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
11	next	next	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	clues	clue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	conj	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is a** | present | a prediction | a sensible guess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | future | a sensible guess |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **build** | participle |  | a sensible guess *not said here* |  | clues |  | in the text | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in text=Attribute |
| 4 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  | about stories | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about story=Stimulus |

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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:019-prediction-what-happens-next.lesson:0`.

**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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