--- title: A fable is a short story, often with animals, that teaches a lesson… — Reading a story: characters, plot and setting · tree and pragmatics description: A fable is a short story, often with animals, that teaches a lesson called a moral. Who acts: fable, short story, lesson. 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 claus --- [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/23/) [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/) / 23 # Reading a story: characters, plot and setting, sentence 23 A fable is a short story, often with animals, that teaches a lesson called a moral. **Who acts:** fable, short story, lesson · **What happens:** be, teach, call · **To what, where:** short story, lesson, moral · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (fable, short story, lesson), 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:23 # text = A fable is a short story, often with animals, that teaches a lesson called a moral. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fable fable NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 often often ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 teaches teach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl:relcl 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 lesson lesson NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 moral moral NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj 19 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **is a** | present | a fable | a short story | | | | with animals | tree rules | | 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | a short story | a lesson | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lesson=Recipient | | 3 | **call** | participle | a lesson *not said here* | a moral | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «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:23`. **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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