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title: First, the comma: «After lunch we played» should be «After lunch, we… — Fronted adverbials · tree and pragmatics
description: First, the comma: «After lunch we played» should be «After lunch, we played.» Second, the rest must still be a full sentence. Who acts: we, comma, rest. 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 c
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# Fronted adverbials, sentence 4

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First, the comma: «After lunch we played» should be «After lunch, we played.» Second, the rest must still be a full sentence.

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**Who acts:** we, comma, rest · **What happens:** play, be · **To what, where:** full sentence · **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 (we, comma, rest), 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:4
# text = First, the comma: «After lunch we played» should be «After lunch, we played.» Second, the rest must still be a full sentence.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	comma	comma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
7	After	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
15	After	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
22	Second	second	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
26	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
27	still	still	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	parataxis	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19: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 | **play** *in a quote* | past | we |  |  |  | after lunch |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | should |  |  |  |  | after lunch |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** *in a quote* | past | the comma |  |  |  |  | first, second *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is a** | must | the rest | a full sentence |  |  | still |  | 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:029-fronted-adverbials.lesson:4`.

**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): R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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