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title: Precise words give a clearer picture than general words like nice, g… — Describing: senses, showing and precise words · tree and pragmatics
description: Precise words give a clearer picture than general words like nice, good, big or bad. Who acts: Precise words. 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 of every clause.
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# Describing: senses, showing and precise words, sentence 7

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Precise words give a clearer picture than general words like nice, good, big or bad.

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**Who acts:** Precise words · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** clearer picture

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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 (Precise words), 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:7
# text = Precise words give a clearer picture than general words like nice, good, big or bad.
# 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	Precise	precise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	clearer	clearer	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | Precise words | a clearer picture |  |  |  | than general words like nice | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=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:041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.lesson:7`.

**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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