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title: A description made only of famous things everyone knows, with nothin… — Too many details, too few · tree and pragmatics
description: A description made only of famous things everyone knows, with nothing personal, may come from films rather than memory. Who acts: everyone, description. 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
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# Too many details, too few, sentence 39

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A description made only of famous things everyone knows, with nothing personal, may come from films rather than memory.

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**Who acts:** everyone, description · **What happens:** make, know, come · **To what, where:** description, famous things, films

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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 (everyone, description), 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:39
# text = A description made only of famous things everyone knows, with nothing personal, may come from films rather than memory.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
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	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	obj	_	_
13	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	21	cc	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **make** | participle |  | a description *not said here* |  |  |  | of famous things | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **know** | present | everyone | famous things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | may | a description |  |  | films rather memory |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from film=Initial\_Location |

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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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