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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 (Many questions, word, adjective, adverb), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:052-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper.lesson:1 # text = Many questions ask what job a word does: an adjective describes a noun ("a quick fox"), and an adverb tells how, when or where something happens ("ran quickly", "ran yesterday"). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 052-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 5 det _ _ 5 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 adjective adjective NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 describes describe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 noun noun NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 adverb adverb NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 27 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 29 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 33 advmod _ _ 32 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 33 nsubj _ _ 33 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ _ 34 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 36 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 parataxis _ _ 37 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 40 " " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 41 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 42 yesterday yesterday NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl:unmarked _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct 44 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 41 punct _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Many questions | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **do** | present | a word | what job | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 3 | **describe** | present | a adjective | a noun | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent noun=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a adverb | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **happen** | present | something | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **run** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **run** *in a quote* | past | | | | | yesterday | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:052-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper.lesson:1`. **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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×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. 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