--- title: «The wind screamed through the trees» is not the same as «the wind b… — Author's choices: why this word, why this way · tree and pragmatics description: «The wind screamed through the trees» is not the same as «the wind blew». Who acts: wind. A sentence of the lesson «Author's choices: why this word, why this way» 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/21-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way/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/) / [Author's choices: why this word, why t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/21-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way/) / 1 # Author's choices: why this word, why this way, sentence 1 «The wind screamed through the trees» is not the same as «the wind blew». **Who acts:** wind · **What happens:** scream, not be, blow · **To what, where:** trees · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Author's choices: why this word, why this way» 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 (wind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.lesson:1 # text = «The wind screamed through the trees» is not the same as «the wind blew». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 screamed scream VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 csubj _ _ 5 through through ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 blew blow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 19 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scream** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | the wind | | | the trees | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tree=Location | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | | | | | | same *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **blow** *in a quote* | past | the wind | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | 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:021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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