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title: Authors sometimes break the usual pattern to surprise the reader. — Prediction: what happens next · tree and pragmatics
description: Authors sometimes break the usual pattern to surprise the reader. Who acts: Authors. A sentence of the lesson «Prediction: what happens next» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Prediction: what happens next, sentence 19

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Authors sometimes break the usual pattern to surprise the reader.

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**Who acts:** Authors · **What happens:** break, surprise · **To what, where:** usual pattern, reader

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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 (Authors), 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:19
# text = Authors sometimes break the usual pattern to surprise the reader.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Authors	author	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
3	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	surprise	surprise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **break** | present | Authors | the usual pattern |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pattern=Patient |
| 2 | **surprise** | to-infinitive | Authors *not said here* | the reader |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus reader=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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**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:19`.

**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 ×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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