--- title: The best trick is to read your work aloud, even in a whisper: your e… — Editing and redrafting · tree and pragmatics description: The best trick is to read your work aloud, even in a whisper: your ear trips over the gap where "the" is missing long before your eyes notice it. Who acts: best trick, ear, the, eyes. 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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 (best trick, ear, the, eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:043-editing-and-redrafting.lesson:2 # text = The best trick is to read your work aloud, even in a whisper: your ear trips over the gap where "the" is missing long before your eyes notice it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 043-editing-and-redrafting.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 aloud aloud ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 even even ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 whisper whisper NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 trips trip VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 19 over over ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 27 advmod _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 nsubj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 missing miss VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 acl:relcl _ _ 28 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 29 before before SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 notice notice VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | the best trick | | | a whisper | | aloud, read *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **trip** | present | your ear | | | the gap | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over gap=Trajectory | | 3 | **miss** | present · progressive | the | | | | | long *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **notice** | present | your eyes | ear | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 5 | **work** | | your | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:043-editing-and-redrafting.lesson:2`. **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): R6-punct-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: [Editing and redrafting, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/43-editing-and-redrafting/1/) - next →: [Editing and redrafting, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/43-editing-and-redrafting/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/43-editing-and-redrafting/)