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title: The audience matters most: speak so the back row can hear, look up a… — Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell · tree and pragmatics
description: The audience matters most: speak so the back row can hear, look up at them, and choose words that suit them, chatty for classmates, formal for the school governors (the grown-ups who help run the school). Who acts: audience, back row, words, grown ups. A sentence of the lesson «Spoken language: pres
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# Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell, sentence 1

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The audience matters most: speak so the back row can hear, look up at them, and choose words that suit them, chatty for classmates, formal for the school governors (the grown-ups who help run the school).

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**Who acts:** audience, back row, words, grown ups · **What happens:** matter, speak, hear, look up, choose, suit · **To what, where:** words, school · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell» 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 (audience, back row, words, grown ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.lesson:1
# text = The audience matters most: speak so the back row can hear, look up at them, and choose words that suit them, chatty for classmates, formal for the school governors (the grown-ups who help run the school).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:NNS:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
21	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	suit	suit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	chatty	chatty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	parataxis	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	classmates	classmate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	formal	formal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	governors	governor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
35	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	39	punct	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	amod	_	_
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	_
39	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	appos	_	_
40	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
42	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	39	punct	_	_
46	.	.	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 | **matter** | present | the audience |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | can | the back row |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **look up** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | at them *= they* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme |
| 5 | **choose** | infinitive |  | words |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 6 | **suit** | present | words | words *= word* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **help** | present | the grown ups |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 9 | **run** | infinitive | the grown ups *not said here* | the school |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme school=Trajectory |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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