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title: He remembers the rule, sits by a big tree and blows his whistle thre… — Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking · tree and pragmatics
description: He remembers the rule, sits by a big tree and blows his whistle three times every few minutes. Who acts: boy. A sentence of the lesson «Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking, sentence 7

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He remembers the rule, sits by a big tree and blows his whistle three times every few minutes.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** remember, sit, blow, whistle · **To what, where:** rule, whistle

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking» 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 (boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking.lesson:7
# text = He remembers the rule, sits by a big tree and blows his whistle three times every few minutes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking.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	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remembers	remember	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	blows	blow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
18	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | present | boy | the rule |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | present | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a big tree | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tree=Location |
| 3 | **blow** | present | boy *not said here* | boy's whistle |  |  | minute; time |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient |
| 4 | **whistle** |  | boy |  |  |  |  |  | nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=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:299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking.lesson:7`.

**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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