--- title: Picture five centimetres of snow in southern England: a few trains l… — The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines · tree and pragmatics description: Picture five centimetres of snow in southern England: a few trains late, a few schools shut, most people getting to work. Who acts: you, few trains, most people. A sentence of the lesson «The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/47-the-best-ever-and-shocking-adverts-and-headlines/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [The best ever and shocking: adverts an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/47-the-best-ever-and-shocking-adverts-and-headlines/) / 4 # The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines, sentence 4 Picture five centimetres of snow in southern England: a few trains late, a few schools shut, most people getting to work. **Who acts:** you, few trains, most people · **What happens:** picture, shut, get, work · **To what, where:** five centimetres, southern England This is a sentence of the lesson «The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines» of the language 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, few trains, most people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:047-the-best-ever-and-shocking-adverts-and-headlines.lesson:4 # text = Picture five centimetres of snow in southern England: a few trains late, a few schools shut, most people getting to work. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 047-the-best-ever-and-shocking-adverts-and-headlines.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 ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 trains train NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 13 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 shut shut VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 amod _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 parataxis _ _ 22 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 acl _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advcl 25 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | five centimetres of snow | | southern England | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent centimetre=Theme | | 2 | **shut** | present | a few trains | | | | | late *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **get** | gerund | most people *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **work** | to-infinitive | most people *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:language:047-the-best-ever-and-shocking-adverts-and-headlines.lesson:4`. **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 ×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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