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title: In London, Abena, one of five, can never find a quiet place to read,… — Twins and big families · tree and pragmatics
description: In London, Abena, one of five, can never find a quiet place to read, so she hides in the bath (no water!) with a book and a torch. Who acts: Abena. A sentence of the lesson «Twins and big families» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Twins and big families, sentence 30

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In London, Abena, one of five, can never find a quiet place to read, so she hides in the bath (no water!) with a book and a torch.

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**Who acts:** Abena · **What happens:** not find, read, hide · **To what, where:** quiet place, London, bath

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Twins and big families» 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 (Abena), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:503-twins-and-big-families.lesson:30
# text = In London, Abena, one of five, can never find a quiet place to read, so she hides in the bath (no water!) with a book and a torch.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 503-twins-and-big-families.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Abena	Abena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:conj
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **not** **find** | can | Abena | a quiet place |  | London |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |
| 2 | **read** | to-infinitive | Abena *not said here* | a quiet place *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hide** | present | Abena |  |  | the bath |  | with a book and a torch | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bath=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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**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:503-twins-and-big-families.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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