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title: Too few details, like «stuff» and «places», can mean a lie, or a pri… — Too many details, too few · tree and pragmatics
description: Too few details, like «stuff» and «places», can mean a lie, or a private worry the person doesn't want to share. Who acts: few details, person, private worry. 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 pragmat
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# Too many details, too few, sentence 36

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Too few details, like «stuff» and «places», can mean a lie, or a private worry the person doesn't want to share.

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**Who acts:** few details, person, private worry · **What happens:** mean, not want, share · **To what, where:** lie, private worry

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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 (few details, person, private worry), 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:36
# text = Too few details, like «stuff» and «places», can mean a lie, or a private worry the person doesn't want to share.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	«	«	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	«	«	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | can | few details like « stuff and « places | a lie or a private worry |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | the person | a private worry *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **share** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a private worry *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:36`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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