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title: «Because... they're Station Road?» It was a reason that was really n… — Our street against theirs · tree and pragmatics
description: «Because... they're Station Road?» It was a reason that was really no reason at all. Who acts: streets, question, reason. A sentence of the lesson «Our street against theirs» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Our street against theirs, sentence 10

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«Because... they're Station Road?» It was a reason that was really no reason at all.

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**Who acts:** streets, question, reason · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Station Road, reason, all

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street against theirs» 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 (streets, question, reason), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:382-our-street-against-theirs.lesson:10
# text = «Because... they're Station Road?» It was a reason that was really no reason at all.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 382-our-street-against-theirs.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	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
2	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	Station	Station	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	really	really	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | streets *= street* | Station Road |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | question | a reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | a reason | no reason |  | all |  |  | tree rules |

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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:382-our-street-against-theirs.lesson:10`.

**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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