--- title: Characters are the people or animals in a story; we learn what they… — Reading a story: characters, plot and setting · tree and pragmatics description: Characters are the people or animals in a story; we learn what they are like from what they do, say and think. Who acts: Characters, we. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Characters, we), 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:16 # text = Characters are the people or animals in a story; we learn what they are like from what they do, say and think. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Characters character NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 obj _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 16 like like INTJ UH _ 18 discourse _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 obl _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Characters | the people or animals | | a story | | | tree rules | | 2 | **learn** | present | we | | | | | from the people or animals | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from what=Source | | 3 | **is a** | present | characters *= character* | the people or animals | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **do** | present | characters *= character* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | characters *= character* *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | present | characters *= character* *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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:022-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting.lesson:16`. **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. **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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