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title: In a library you speak quietly or whisper and walk, because people a… — Quiet places and solemn moments · tree and pragmatics
description: In a library you speak quietly or whisper and walk, because people are reading and studying. Who acts: you, people. A sentence of the lesson «Quiet places and solemn moments» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Quiet places and solemn moments, sentence 5

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In a library you speak quietly or whisper and walk, because people are reading and studying.

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**Who acts:** you, people · **What happens:** speak, whisper, walk, read, study · **To what, where:** library · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Quiet places and solemn moments» 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 (you, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments.lesson:5
# text = In a library you speak quietly or whisper and walk, because people are reading and studying.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	whisper	whisper	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	studying	study	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
18	.	.	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 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | you |  |  | a library |  | quietly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **walk** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **read** | present · progressive | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **study** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments.lesson:5`.

**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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