--- title: Aanya in Singapore asks, «Teacher, why author write like that one, s… — Author's choices: why this word, why this way · tree and pragmatics description: Aanya in Singapore asks, «Teacher, why author write like that one, so many "and then, and then"?» («like that one» is Singapore English for «in that way».) Sometimes it is on purpose: «and then, and then» can make a narrator sound young and breathless. Who acts: Aanya, author, way, narrator. 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Sometimes it is on purpose: «and then, and then» can make a narrator sound young and breathless. **Who acts:** Aanya, author, way, narrator · **What happens:** ask, write, be, make, sound · **To what, where:** many, purpose, narrator · **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 (Aanya, author, way, narrator), 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:12 # text = Aanya in Singapore asks, «Teacher, why author write like that one, so many "and then, and then"?» («like that one» is Singapore English for «in that way».) Sometimes it is on purpose: «and then, and then» can make a narrator sound young and breathless. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Aanya Aanya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Singapore Singapore PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 « « ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 vocative _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:vocative 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 10 author author NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 write write VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 det _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obl _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 parataxis _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 26 » » PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 30 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 dep _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 Singapore Singapore PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 « « PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 det _ _ 40 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:nmod 41 » » PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 43 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 4 punct _ _ 44 Sometimes sometimes ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 46 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 47 on on ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 ccomp _ _ 49 : : PUNCT : _ 58 punct _ _ 50 « « PUNCT `` _ 58 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 52 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 58 advmod _ _ 53 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 55 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 58 advmod _ _ 56 » » PUNCT '' _ 55 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=58:punct 57 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 58 aux _ _ 58 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 parataxis _ _ 59 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 narrator narrator NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obj _ _ 61 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 58 xcomp _ _ 62 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 xcomp _ _ 63 and and CCONJ CC _ 64 cc _ _ 64 breathless breathless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 conj _ _ 65 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Aanya in Singapore | many | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **write** *in a quote* | infinitive | author | | | | | like that one; Teacher *vocative* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | like Singapore English; for that way | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | way | | | purpose | | sometimes *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | can | | a narrator | | | then; then | | tree rules | | 6 | **sound** | infinitive | a narrator *not said here* | | | | | young *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:12`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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