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title: A whistle can be heard much farther than a shout, and it does not we… — What to do if you are lost · tree and pragmatics
description: A whistle can be heard much farther than a shout, and it does not wear out your voice. Who acts: whistle. A sentence of the lesson «What to do if you are lost» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# What to do if you are lost, sentence 17

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A whistle can be heard much farther than a shout, and it does not wear out your voice.

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**Who acts:** whistle · **What happens:** hear, not wear out · **To what, where:** whistle, voice

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What to do if you are lost» of the everyday 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 (whistle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:017-if-you-are-lost.lesson:17
# text = A whistle can be heard much farther than a shout, and it does not wear out your voice.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 017-if-you-are-lost.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	shout	shout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **hear** | can · passive |  | a whistle |  |  |  | far *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **wear out** | present · do-support | whistle | your voice |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent voice=Source |

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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:everyday:017-if-you-are-lost.lesson:17`.

**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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