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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 --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Author's choices: why this word, why this way, sentence 3 To answer a «why did the author…» question, name the choice, then say what it makes you feel or picture. **Who acts:** you, choice · **What happens:** answer, name, say, make, feel, picture · **To what, where:** question, choice, you · **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 (you, choice), 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:3 # text = To answer a «why did the author…» question, name the choice, then say what it makes you feel or picture. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 5 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 6 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 author author NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 … . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 11 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 name name VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 17 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 18 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 21 obj _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc 25 picture picture VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | question | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality | | 2 | **name** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the choice | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **make** | present | choice | you | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **feel** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **picture** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: 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:021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.lesson:3`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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