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title: Ava believed her — and later saw the photos. — Too many details, too few · tree and pragmatics
description: Ava believed her — and later saw the photos. Who acts: Ava. A sentence of the lesson «Too many details, too few» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Too many details, too few, sentence 24

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Ava believed her — and later saw the photos.

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**Who acts:** Ava · **What happens:** believe, see · **To what, where:** story, photos

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Too many details, too few» 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 (Ava), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:450-too-many-details-too-few.lesson:24
# text = Ava believed her — and later saw the photos.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 450-too-many-details-too-few.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	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **believe** | past | Ava | story |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | past | Ava *not said here* | the photos |  |  |  | late *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer photo=Stimulus |

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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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**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.

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