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title: Think of passing a note along a row of desks: nobody walks the whole… — The Silk Road · tree and pragmatics
description: Think of passing a note along a row of desks: nobody walks the whole way, each pupil hands it to the next. Who acts: you, nobody, pupil. A sentence of the lesson «The Silk Road» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Silk Road, sentence 0

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Think of passing a note along a row of desks: nobody walks the whole way, each pupil hands it to the next.

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**Who acts:** you, nobody, pupil · **What happens:** think, pass, walk, hand · **To what, where:** note, row, whole way, next

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Silk Road» of the geography 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 (you, nobody, pupil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:028-the-silk-road.lesson:0
# text = Think of passing a note along a row of desks: nobody walks the whole way, each pupil hands it to the next.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 028-the-silk-road.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 ×1
1	Think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	along	along	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	desks	desk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	nsubj	_	_
13	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	hands	hand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pass** | gerund | you *not said here* | a note |  | a row of desks |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent note=Theme along row=Destination |
| 3 | **walk** | present | nobody | the whole way |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hand** | present | each pupil | note |  | the next |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to next=Destination |

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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:geography:028-the-silk-road.lesson:0`.

**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 ×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.

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

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