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description: Good description lets the reader stand inside the scene, and the trick is to use more than your eyes: close them in a busy market and you hear the stall-holders shouting, smell the hot doughnuts and feel elbows bumping yours. Who acts: Good description, reader, trick, you. A sentence of the lesson «
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# Describing: senses, showing and precise words, sentence 0

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Good description lets the reader stand inside the scene, and the trick is to use more than your eyes: close them in a busy market and you hear the stall-holders shouting, smell the hot doughnuts and feel elbows bumping yours.

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**Who acts:** Good description, reader, trick, you, stall holders, elbows · **What happens:** let, stand, be, close, hear, shout · **To what, where:** scene, eyes, stall holders, hot doughnuts, elbows, yours

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Describing: senses, showing and precise words» 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 (Good description, reader, trick, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.lesson:0
# text = Good description lets the reader stand inside the scene, and the trick is to use more than your eyes: close them in a busy market and you hear the stall-holders shouting, smell the hot doughnuts and feel elbows bumping yours.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	obj	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
22	close	close	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	stall	stall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	_
34	holders	holder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
35	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	doughnuts	doughnut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=37:conj
43	elbows	elbow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
44	bumping	bump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	43	acl	_	_
45	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **let** | present | Good description |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | infinitive | the reader |  |  | the scene |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside scene=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | the trick |  |  |  |  | use *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **close** | infinitive | the trick *not said here* | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  | in a busy market | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Patient in market=Topic |
| 5 | **hear** | present | you | the stall holders |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer holder=Stimulus |
| 6 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | the stall holders *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **smell** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the hot doughnuts |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doughnut=Stimulus |
| 8 | **feel** | infinitive | you *not said here* | elbows |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elbow=Theme |
| 9 | **bump** | gerund | elbows *not said here* | yours |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent your=Patient |

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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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**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. **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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