--- title: Show-and-tell builds confidence in speaking to a group; the object d… — Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell · tree and pragmatics description: Show-and-tell builds confidence in speaking to a group; the object does not need to be exciting, because the talk matters more. Who acts: Show tell, object, talk. 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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 (Show tell, object, talk), 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:6 # text = Show-and-tell builds confidence in speaking to a group; the object does not need to be exciting, because the talk matters more. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Show show NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 tell tell NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 builds build VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 confidence confidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obj 8 in in SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 9 speaking speak VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 nmod _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 object object NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 16 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 19 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 cop _ _ 21 exciting exciting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 23 because because SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 27 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 26 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | present | Show tell | confidence | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset confidence=Product | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | to a group | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to group=Co-Agent | | 3 | **not** **need** | present · do-support | the object | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the object *not said here* | | | | | exciting *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **matter** | present | the talk | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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:048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.lesson:6`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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. 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