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title: To check, cover the fronted adverbial: what is left should make sens… — Fronted adverbials · tree and pragmatics
description: To check, cover the fronted adverbial: what is left should make sense on its own. Who acts: you. 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 17

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To check, cover the fronted adverbial: what is left should make sense on its own.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** check, cover, front, leave, make · **To what, where:** fronted adverbial, sense, own

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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 (you), 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:17
# text = To check, cover the fronted adverbial: what is left should make sense on its own.
# 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): no change
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	cover	cover	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fronted	front	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	adverbial	adverbial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	csubj	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
14	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cover** | imperative | you *not said here* | the fronted adverbial |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme adverbial=Destination |
| 3 | **front** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | should |  | sense |  | sense's own |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sense=Product |

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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:17`.

**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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