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title: Example: a boy in Toronto learning the piano keeps stumbling on one… — Console games, building, crafts, music and ball… · tree and pragmatics
description: Example: a boy in Toronto learning the piano keeps stumbling on one hard bar. Who acts: boy. A sentence of the lesson «Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games, sentence 3

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Example: a boy in Toronto learning the piano keeps stumbling on one hard bar.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** learn, keep, stumble · **To what, where:** piano, one hard bar

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games» 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:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music.lesson:3
# text = Example: a boy in Toronto learning the piano keeps stumbling on one hard bar.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:appos
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	piano	piano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
11	stumbling	stumble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10: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 | **learn** | gerund | a boy in Toronto *not said here* | the piano |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piano=Topic |
| 2 | **keep** | present | a boy in Toronto |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stumble** | gerund | a boy in Toronto *not said here* |  |  | one hard bar |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bar=Trajectory |

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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:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music.lesson:3`.

**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, R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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