--- title: Lessons build on one another, so a gap you never ask about grows big… — Questions, group work and the adults at school · tree and pragmatics description: Lessons build on one another, so a gap you never ask about grows bigger over time. Who acts: Lessons, you, gap. A sentence of the lesson «Questions, group work and the adults at school» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Questions, group work and the adults a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school/) / 20 # Questions, group work and the adults at school, sentence 20 Lessons build on one another, so a gap you never ask about grows bigger over time. **Who acts:** Lessons, you, gap · **What happens:** build, not ask, grow · **To what, where:** gap This is a sentence of the lesson «Questions, group work and the adults at school» 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 (Lessons, you, gap), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school.lesson:20 # text = Lessons build on one another, so a gap you never ask about grows bigger over time. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Lessons lesson NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ 5 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 4 fixed _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 xcomp _ _ 16 over over ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | Lessons | | | | | on one | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on one=Source | | 2 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | present | you | a gap *not said here* | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gap=Recipient | | 3 | **grow** | present | a gap | | | | time | about, big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school.lesson:20`. **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): R7-rel-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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