--- title: She held her breath and listened") and let the reader work out the f… — Describing: senses, showing and precise words · tree and pragmatics description: She held her breath and listened") and let the reader work out the feeling, which readers love doing. Who acts: word, reader, readers. A sentence of the lesson «Describing: senses, showing and precise words» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/41-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Describing: senses, showing and precis…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/41-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words/) / 3 # Describing: senses, showing and precise words, sentence 3 She held her breath and listened") and let the reader work out the feeling, which readers love doing. **Who acts:** word, reader, readers · **What happens:** hold, listen, let, work out, love, do · **To what, where:** breath, reader, feeling 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 (word, reader, readers), 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:3 # text = She held her breath and listened") and let the reader work out the feeling, which readers love doing. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 6 listened listen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 10 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 reader reader NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 14 out out ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obl 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 obj _ _ 19 readers reader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 21 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 xcomp _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | past | word | word's breath | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | | 2 | **listen** | past | word *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | word *not said here* | the reader | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **work out** *in a quote* | infinitive | the reader *not said here* | the feeling | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Topic | | 5 | **love** *in a quote* | present | readers | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **do** *not said to happen, in a quote* | gerund | readers *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | 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:041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.lesson:3`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Describing: senses, showing and precis…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/41-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words/2/) - next →: [Describing: senses, showing and precis…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/41-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/41-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words/)