--- title: Asking what a word really means can change how people use it. — Lily, the calm «princess» · tree and pragmatics description: Asking what a word really means can change how people use it. Who acts: word, Asking, people. A sentence of the lesson «Lily, the calm «princess»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/28/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Lily, the calm «princess»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/) / 28 # Lily, the calm «princess», sentence 28 Asking what a word really means can change how people use it. **Who acts:** word, Asking, people · **What happens:** ask, mean, change, use · **To what, where:** word · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Lily, the calm «princess»» 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 (word, Asking, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:386-lily-the-calm-princess.lesson:28 # text = Asking what a word really means can change how people use it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 386-lily-the-calm-princess.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 Asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 really really ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | present | a word | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 3 | **change** | can | Asking | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **use** | present | people | word | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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. **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:386-lily-the-calm-princess.lesson:28`. **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/). - ← previous: [Lily, the calm «princess», 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/27/) - next →: [Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/)