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title: Letting someone else choose first is a simple way to put right a grab. — Taking too much · tree and pragmatics
description: Letting someone else choose first is a simple way to put right a grab. Who acts: someone, Letting. A sentence of the lesson «Taking too much» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Taking too much, sentence 21

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Letting someone else choose first is a simple way to put right a grab.

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**Who acts:** someone, Letting · **What happens:** let, choose, be, put · **To what, where:** someone, simple way, grab

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Taking too much» 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, Letting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.lesson:21
# text = Letting someone else choose first is a simple way to put right a grab.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.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	Letting	let	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	else	else	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	right	right	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	grab	grab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **let** | gerund |  | someone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **choose** | infinitive | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Letting | a simple way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **put** | to-infinitive |  | a grab |  |  |  | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent grab=Goal |

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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:352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.lesson:21`.

**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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