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title: Think of a phone with the battery gone flat: everything is still ins… — The Maya · tree and pragmatics
description: Think of a phone with the battery gone flat: everything is still inside, but you cannot read it. Who acts: you, battery, everything. A sentence of the lesson «The Maya» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Maya, sentence 3

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Think of a phone with the battery gone flat: everything is still inside, but you cannot read it.

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**Who acts:** you, battery, everything · **What happens:** think, go, be, not read · **To what, where:** phone, battery

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Maya» of the history 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, battery, everything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:018-the-maya.lesson:3
# text = Think of a phone with the battery gone flat: everything is still inside, but you cannot read it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 018-the-maya.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	Think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl	_	_
9	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	1	parataxis	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of a phone | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | participle | the battery | a phone *not said here* |  |  |  | flat *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location phone=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | everything |  |  |  | still | inside *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **read** | can | you | battery |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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:history:018-the-maya.lesson:3`.

**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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