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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, parent, most parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.lesson:32 # text = Telling a parent calmly, «Sometimes I feel you like him more», is a good way to bring it up; most parents want to know. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.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 ×1 1 Telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 iobj _ _ 4 calmly calmly ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 Sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 9 advmod _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 11 advmod _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 26 amod _ _ 26 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | a parent | | | calmly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **feel** *in a quote* | present | I | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **like** *in a quote* | present | a parent *= parent* | favourite | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | | a good way | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **bring up** | to-infinitive | | parent | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 6 | **want** | present | most parents | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | most parents *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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. **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:509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.lesson:32`. **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 ×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. 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