--- title: In many good stories a character changes by the end, showing what th… — Reading a story: characters, plot and setting · tree and pragmatics description: In many good stories a character changes by the end, showing what they learned from the problem. Who acts: character, characters. 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 eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/22-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting/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/) / [Reading a story: characters, plot and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/22-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting/) / 19 # Reading a story: characters, plot and setting, sentence 19 In many good stories a character changes by the end, showing what they learned from the problem. **Who acts:** character, characters · **What happens:** change, show, learn · **To what, where:** many good stories, problem 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 (character, characters), 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:19 # text = In many good stories a character changes by the end, showing what they learned from the problem. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 character character NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 showing show VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:acl 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 12 obj _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | a character | | | many good stories | by the end | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **show** | gerund | a character *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | | 3 | **learn** | past | characters *= character* | | | the problem | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from problem=Source | 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: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): R6-punct-agree ×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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