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title: «What book did you get?» «A book about… sharks.» «Let's see it.» «I… — When the story falls apart · tree and pragmatics
description: «What book did you get?» «A book about… sharks.» «Let's see it.» «I had to leave it there.» «Why?» «Because… sharks.» Four questions and the story fell over. Who acts: you, 's, Mia, Four questions. A sentence of the lesson «When the story falls apart» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school 
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# When the story falls apart, sentence 1

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«What book did you get?» «A book about… sharks.» «Let's see it.» «I had to leave it there.» «Why?» «Because… sharks.» Four questions and the story fell over.

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**Who acts:** you, 's, Mia, Four questions · **What happens:** get, let, see, have, leave, fall over · **To what, where:** book, 's

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When the story falls apart» 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 (you, 's, Mia, Four questions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:431-when-the-story-falls-apart.lesson:1
# text = «What book did you get?» «A book about… sharks.» «Let's see it.» «I had to leave it there.» «Why?» «Because… sharks.» Four questions and the story fell over.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 431-when-the-story-falls-apart.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): R6-punct-agree ×9, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
10	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	…	…	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
14	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
18	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
19	's	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
24	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
32	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
33	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
34	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	parataxis	_	_
35	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
36	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
37	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=48:punct
38	Because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	40	case	_	_
39	…	…	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
40	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	_
42	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	48	punct	_	_
43	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
44	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	_
48	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
49	over	over	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: none
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | past · do-support | you | what book |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer book=Stimulus |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | 's |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* | book |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Mia |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **leave** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Mia *not said here* | book |  | there |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **fall over** | past | Four questions and the story |  |  |  |  | because sharks; over *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:431-when-the-story-falls-apart.lesson:1`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×9, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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