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title: Read this: «Nell found the stray kitten behind the bins. — Reading a story: characters, plot and setting · tree and pragmatics
description: Read this: «Nell found the stray kitten behind the bins. Who acts: you, Nell. A sentence of the lesson «Reading a story: characters, plot and setting» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Reading a story: characters, plot and setting, sentence 1

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Read this: «Nell found the stray kitten behind the bins.

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**Who acts:** you, Nell · **What happens:** read, find · **To what, where:** this, stray kitten, bins · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading a story: characters, plot and setting» 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, Nell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:022-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting.lesson:1
# text = Read this: «Nell found the stray kitten behind the bins.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 022-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obj	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	Nell	Nell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	stray	stray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	kitten	kitten	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bins	bin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | imperative | you *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** *in a quote* | past | Nell | the stray kitten |  | the bins |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kitten=Topic |

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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.

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**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:022-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting.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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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