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title: Nobody «knows» anything; life goes on, quieter. — Blocking, muting and walking away · tree and pragmatics
description: Nobody «knows» anything; life goes on, quieter. Who acts: Nobody, life. A sentence of the lesson «Blocking, muting and walking away» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Blocking, muting and walking away, sentence 10

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Nobody «knows» anything; life goes on, quieter.

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**Who acts:** Nobody, life · **What happens:** know, go on · **To what, where:** anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Blocking, muting and walking away» 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 (Nobody, life), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away.lesson:10
# text = Nobody «knows» anything; life goes on, quieter.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
9	on	on	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	quieter	quieter	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	xcomp	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** *in a quote* | present | Nobody | anything |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go on** | present | life |  |  |  |  | quieter *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away.lesson:10`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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