--- title: When you meet a new word, read the words around it: they are its con… — Vocabulary in context · tree and pragmatics description: When you meet a new word, read the words around it: they are its context, and they leave clues. Who acts: you, they. A sentence of the lesson «Vocabulary in context» 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/20-vocabulary-in-context/1/) [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/) / [Vocabulary in context](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/20-vocabulary-in-context/) / 1 # Vocabulary in context, sentence 1 When you meet a new word, read the words around it: they are its context, and they leave clues. **Who acts:** you, they · **What happens:** meet, read, be, leave · **To what, where:** new word, words, word, context, clues This is a sentence of the lesson «Vocabulary in context» 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 (you, they), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:020-vocabulary-in-context.lesson:1 # text = When you meet a new word, read the words around it: they are its context, and they leave clues. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 020-vocabulary-in-context.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 meet meet VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 read read VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 around around ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl 13 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 context context NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 22 clues clue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** | present | you | a new word | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Co-Agent | | 2 | **read** | infinitive | | the words | | word | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 3 | **is a** | present | they | word's context | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **leave** | present | they | clues | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Theme | 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:020-vocabulary-in-context.lesson:1`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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: [Vocabulary in context, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/20-vocabulary-in-context/0/) - next →: [Vocabulary in context, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/20-vocabulary-in-context/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/20-vocabulary-in-context/)