--- title: Italics can show thoughts, a word said with emphasis, or a word from… — Author's choices: why this word, why this way · tree and pragmatics description: Italics can show thoughts, a word said with emphasis, or a word from another language. Who acts: Italics. 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/19/) [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/) / 19 # Author's choices: why this word, why this way, sentence 19 Italics can show thoughts, a word said with emphasis, or a word from another language. **Who acts:** Italics · **What happens:** show, say · **To what, where:** thoughts, word · **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 (Italics), 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:19 # text = Italics can show thoughts, a word said with emphasis, or a word from another language. # 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 ×1 1 Italics italic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nsubj 8 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 emphasis emphasis NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 17 det _ _ 17 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 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 | **show** | can | Italics | thoughts | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thought=Recipient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle | | a word or a word from another language *not said here* | | | | with emphasis | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with emphasis=Manner | 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:19`. **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 ×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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