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title: Reading slowly or finding it hard to sit still is not the same as be… — Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels · tree and pragmatics
description: Reading slowly or finding it hard to sit still is not the same as being stupid; many clever people learn differently. Who acts: Reading, many clever people. A sentence of the lesson «Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels, sentence 23

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Reading slowly or finding it hard to sit still is not the same as being stupid; many clever people learn differently.

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**Who acts:** Reading, many clever people · **What happens:** read, find, sit, not be, be, learn · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels» 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 (Reading, many clever people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels.lesson:23
# text = Reading slowly or finding it hard to sit still is not the same as being stupid; many clever people learn differently.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels.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	Reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
2	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	expl	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	csubj	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
16	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
22	differently	differently	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sit** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | Reading |  |  |  |  | same *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | gerund | Reading *not said here* |  |  |  |  | stupid *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **learn** | present | many clever people |  |  |  |  | differently *property* | 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:367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels.lesson:23`.

**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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