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title: Ali skips the glossary and then gets stuck on «hibernate»: it means… — Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report · tree and pragmatics
description: Ali skips the glossary and then gets stuck on «hibernate»: it means a long winter sleep. Who acts: Ali, glossary. A sentence of the lesson «Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report, sentence 15

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Ali skips the glossary and then gets stuck on «hibernate»: it means a long winter sleep.

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**Who acts:** Ali, glossary · **What happens:** skip, stick, mean · **To what, where:** glossary, hibernate, long winter sleep

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report» 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 (Ali, glossary), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:023-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report.lesson:15
# text = Ali skips the glossary and then gets stuck on «hibernate»: it means a long winter sleep.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 023-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report.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	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	skips	skip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	glossary	glossary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
7	gets	get	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	hibernate	hibernate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skip** | present | Ali | the glossary |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glossary=Agent |
| 2 | **stick** | present · passive | Ali *not said here* |  |  | hibernate | then |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: on hibernate=Destination |
| 3 | **mean** | present | glossary | a long winter sleep |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=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:023-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report.lesson:15`.

**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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