--- title: And authors sometimes surprise us on purpose: Isla predicts the prin… — Prediction: what happens next · tree and pragmatics description: And authors sometimes surprise us on purpose: Isla predicts the princess will save herself instead of waiting for a prince, and in many modern stories she does. Who acts: authors, Isla, princess. A sentence of the lesson «Prediction: what happens next» of the english course of Mova's primary school --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Prediction: what happens next, sentence 8 And authors sometimes surprise us on purpose: Isla predicts the princess will save herself instead of waiting for a prince, and in many modern stories she does. **Who acts:** authors, Isla, princess · **What happens:** surprise, predict, save, wait, do · **To what, where:** us, purpose, princess, many modern stories 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, Isla, princess), 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:8 # text = And authors sometimes surprise us on purpose: Isla predicts the princess will save herself instead of waiting for a prince, and in many modern stories she does. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 authors author NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 sometimes sometimes ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 surprise surprise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 Isla Isla PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 predicts predict VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 15 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 obj _ _ 16 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 18 mark _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 16 fixed _ _ 18 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **surprise** | present | authors | us | | purpose | | sometimes *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer | | 2 | **predict** | present | Isla | | | | | | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic | | 3 | **save** | future | the princess | princess | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | | 4 | **wait** | gerund | the princess *not said here* | | | | | for a prince | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **do** | present | Isla | | | many modern stories | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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:8`. **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): 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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/19-prediction-what-happens-next/7/) - next →: [Prediction: what happens next, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/19-prediction-what-happens-next/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/19-prediction-what-happens-next/)