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title: Good readers change their predictions as they go, like a weather for… — Prediction: what happens next · tree and pragmatics
description: Good readers change their predictions as they go, like a weather forecaster who looks out of the window again. Who acts: Good readers, readers, weather forecaster. A sentence of the lesson «Prediction: what happens next» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Prediction: what happens next, sentence 6

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Good readers change their predictions as they go, like a weather forecaster who looks out of the window again.

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**Who acts:** Good readers, readers, weather forecaster · **What happens:** change, go, look out, predict · **To what, where:** predictions, window

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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 (Good readers, readers, weather forecaster), 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:6
# text = Good readers change their predictions as they go, like a weather forecaster who looks out of the window again.
# 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	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	readers	reader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	predictions	prediction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	forecaster	forecaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **change** | present | Good readers | readers's predictions |  |  |  | like a weather forecaster | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prediction=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | present | readers *= reader* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look out** | present | a weather forecaster | the window |  |  | again |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **predict** |  | readers *= reader* |  |  |  |  |  | nom prediction «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:6`.

**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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