--- title: Kai changes his mind halfway through a book: that is not failing, it… — Prediction: what happens next · tree and pragmatics description: Kai changes his mind halfway through a book: that is not failing, it is reading well. Who acts: Kai, that, mind. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/19-prediction-what-happens-next/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Prediction: what happens next](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/19-prediction-what-happens-next/) / 7 # Prediction: what happens next, sentence 7 Kai changes his mind halfway through a book: that is not failing, it is reading well. **Who acts:** Kai, that, mind · **What happens:** change, not fail, read, mind · **To what, where:** mind, book 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 (Kai, that, mind), 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:7 # text = Kai changes his mind halfway through a book: that is not failing, it is reading well. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 halfway halfway ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 6 through through ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 failing fail VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 parataxis _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 reading read VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 18 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | Kai | Kai's mind | | a book | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | | 2 | **not** **fail** | present · progressive | that | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **read** | present · progressive | mind | | | | | well *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mind** | | Kai | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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:7`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Prediction: what happens next, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/19-prediction-what-happens-next/6/) - next →: [Prediction: what happens next, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/19-prediction-what-happens-next/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/19-prediction-what-happens-next/)