--- title: A chapter that is one word long, «Silence.», is not lazy: it stops y… — Author's choices: why this word, why this way · tree and pragmatics description: A chapter that is one word long, «Silence.», is not lazy: it stops you dead, and you feel the quiet. Who acts: chapter, you. 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 cl --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Author's choices: why this word, why this way, sentence 5 A chapter that is one word long, «Silence.», is not lazy: it stops you dead, and you feel the quiet. **Who acts:** chapter, you · **What happens:** be, not be, stop, feel · **To what, where:** one word, you, quiet 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 (chapter, you), 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:5 # text = A chapter that is one word long, «Silence.», is not lazy: it stops you dead, and you feel the quiet. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 chapter chapter NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 acl:relcl _ _ 7 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 11 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 lazy lazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 quiet quiet NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a chapter | one word | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | a chapter | | | | | lazy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **stop** | present | chapter | you | | | | dead *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality you=Eventuality | | 4 | **feel** | present | you | the quiet | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quiet=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:021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.lesson:5`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-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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