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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 (Abby, gran, washing machine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:065-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day.lesson:1 # text = Abby tells her gran it is «delulu», short for deluded, to say the washing machine changed more lives than the internet. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 065-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day.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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Abby Abby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 gran gran NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 8 delulu delulu X FW Foreign=Yes 5 appos _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 13 deluded delude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 washing washing NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 21 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 amod _ _ 22 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 than than ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 internet internet NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Abby | Abby's gran | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gran=Recipient | | 2 | **is** | present | gran | | | | | for deluded; short *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Abby *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **change** | past | the washing machine | more lives | | | | than the internet | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient | 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:history:065-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day.lesson:1`. **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, R8-pos-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. 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