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title: In a plot, one event often causes the next; this is cause and effect. — Reading a story: characters, plot and setting · tree and pragmatics
description: In a plot, one event often causes the next; this is cause and effect. Who acts: one event, this. 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 21

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In a plot, one event often causes the next; this is cause and effect.

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**Who acts:** one event, this · **What happens:** cause, be · **To what, where:** next, plot, cause

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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 (one event, this), 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:21
# text = In a plot, one event often causes the next; this is cause and effect.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	plot	plot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	causes	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **cause** | present | one event | the next |  | a plot |  | often *property* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition next=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | this | cause and effect |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:21`.

**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): no change. **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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