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title: Cue cards with key words beat reading every word from a sheet, and s… — Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell · tree and pragmatics
description: Cue cards with key words beat reading every word from a sheet, and slides should hold pictures and a few key words while you say the rest. Who acts: Cue cards, slides, you. A sentence of the lesson «Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell» of the english course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell, sentence 3

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Cue cards with key words beat reading every word from a sheet, and slides should hold pictures and a few key words while you say the rest.

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**Who acts:** Cue cards, slides, you · **What happens:** beat, read, hold, say · **To what, where:** word, sheet, pictures, rest · **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 (Cue cards, slides, you), 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:3
# text = Cue cards with key words beat reading every word from a sheet, and slides should hold pictures and a few key words while you say the rest.
# 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): no change
1	Cue	cue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	key	key	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	xcomp	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sheet	sheet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	slides	slide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
18	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	key	key	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
24	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | present | Cue cards with key words |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **read** | gerund | Cue cards with key words *not said here* | every word |  | a sheet |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent word=Topic from sheet=Source |
| 3 | **hold** | should | slides | pictures and a few key words |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you | the rest |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rest=Topic |

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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:048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.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): no change. **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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