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title: An adverbial tells you when, where, how or how often something happe… — Fronted adverbials · tree and pragmatics
description: An adverbial tells you when, where, how or how often something happens. Who acts: adverbial, something. A sentence of the lesson «Fronted adverbials» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fronted adverbials, sentence 12

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An adverbial tells you when, where, how or how often something happens.

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**Who acts:** adverbial, something · **What happens:** tell, happen · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fronted adverbials» 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 (adverbial, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:029-fronted-adverbials.lesson:12
# text = An adverbial tells you when, where, how or how often something happens.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 029-fronted-adverbials.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det
2	adverbial	adverbial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	nsubj	_	_
14	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a adverbial |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **happen** | present | something |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:029-fronted-adverbials.lesson:12`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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