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title: A story mountain shows a common story shape: opening, build-up, prob… — Planning before writing · tree and pragmatics
description: A story mountain shows a common story shape: opening, build-up, problem, resolution and ending. Who acts: story mountain. A sentence of the lesson «Planning before writing» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Planning before writing, sentence 8

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A story mountain shows a common story shape: opening, build-up, problem, resolution and ending.

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**Who acts:** story mountain · **What happens:** show · **To what, where:** common story shape

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Planning before writing» 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 (story mountain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:039-planning-before-writing.lesson:8
# text = A story mountain shows a common story shape: opening, build-up, problem, resolution and ending.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 039-planning-before-writing.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	opening	opening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	build	build	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
14	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	resolution	resolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	ending	ending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **show** | present | a story mountain | a common story shape |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shape=Recipient |

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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:039-planning-before-writing.lesson:8`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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