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title: Small details like a car's colour, a number plate or what someone wo… — Remembering details · tree and pragmatics
description: Small details like a car's colour, a number plate or what someone wore help police a lot. Who acts: someone, Small details. A sentence of the lesson «Remembering details» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Remembering details, sentence 19

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Small details like a car's colour, a number plate or what someone wore help police a lot.

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**Who acts:** someone, Small details · **What happens:** wear, help · **To what, where:** Small details, police

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Remembering details» 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 (someone, Small details), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:018-remembering-details.lesson:19
# text = Small details like a car's colour, a number plate or what someone wore help police a lot.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 018-remembering-details.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 ×3
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	obj	_	_
14	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	nsubj	_	_
15	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **wear** | past | someone | Small details like a car's colour and a number plate |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 2 | **help** | present | Small details like a car's colour and a number plate | police |  |  |  | a lot *obl* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent police=Beneficiary |

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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:018-remembering-details.lesson:19`.

**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 ×3. **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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