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title: A story with too many neat details for an ordinary thing can be made… — Too many details, too few · tree and pragmatics
description: A story with too many neat details for an ordinary thing can be made up — but so can a story with too few. 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 4

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A story with too many neat details for an ordinary thing can be made up — but so can a story with too few.

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**What happens:** make up · **To what, where:** story

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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: 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:4
# text = A story with too many neat details for an ordinary thing can be made up — but so can a story with too few.
# 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	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 up** | can · passive |  | a story with many neat details for a ordinary thing |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |

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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:4`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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