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title: Ali writes «Carefully, carried the eggs.» Who carried them? — Fronted adverbials · tree and pragmatics
description: Ali writes «Carefully, carried the eggs.» Who carried them? Who acts: Ali. 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 5

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Ali writes «Carefully, carried the eggs.» Who carried them?

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**Who acts:** Ali · **What happens:** write, carry · **To what, where:** eggs · **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 (Ali), 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:5
# text = Ali writes «Carefully, carried the eggs.» Who carried them?
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
4	Carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: none
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present | Ali |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **carry** *in a quote* | past | Ali *not said here* | the eggs |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** | past |  | eggs *= egg* |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:5`.

**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): 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.

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

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