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title: On the radio a man said «Everyone knows…», and Callum in Belfast ask… — Too many details, too few · tree and pragmatics
description: On the radio a man said «Everyone knows…», and Callum in Belfast asked who «everyone» was. Who acts: man, Everyone, Callum. 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 30

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On the radio a man said «Everyone knows…», and Callum in Belfast asked who «everyone» was.

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**Who acts:** man, Everyone, Callum · **What happens:** say, know, ask, « · **To what, where:** radio, everyone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (man, Everyone, Callum), 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:30
# text = On the radio a man said «Everyone knows…», and Callum in Belfast asked who «everyone» was.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	radio	radio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	«	«	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
9	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	…	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
11	»	»	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Callum	Callum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Belfast	Belfast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	«	«	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
20	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	19	obj	_	_
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP:Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a man |  |  | the radio |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | Everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Callum in Belfast |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **«** | past |  | everyone |  |  |  |  | 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:450-too-many-details-too-few.lesson:30`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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