--- title: So the smart move is to find the odd bit, underline it, and learn ju… — Tricky words and common exception words · tree and pragmatics description: So the smart move is to find the odd bit, underline it, and learn just that part, maybe with a trick: «Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants» spells BECAUSE. Who acts: Big Elephants. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Big Elephants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:003-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words.lesson:5 # text = So the smart move is to find the odd bit, underline it, and learn just that part, maybe with a trick: «Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants» spells BECAUSE. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 003-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 smart smart ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 move move NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 odd odd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 underline underline VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 17 just just ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 maybe maybe ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 25 : : PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 26 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 27 Big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 Elephants elephant PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 29 Can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 Always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 31 advmod _ _ 31 Understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 csubj _ _ 32 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 Elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 35 spells spell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 36 BECAUSE because NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | find *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **underline** | infinitive | | bit | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **learn** | infinitive | | that part | | | | with a trick | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Topic | | 4 | **understand** *in a quote* | can | Big Elephants | Small Elephants | | | | always *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer elephant=Stimulus | | 5 | **spell** | present | | BECAUSE | | | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent because=Theme | 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. **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:003-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words.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, R8-pos-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. 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