--- title: The wise way is in the middle: enjoy the pride, and let the facts se… — My dad could lift a car: playground boasting · tree and pragmatics description: The wise way is in the middle: enjoy the pride, and let the facts settle it — the chessboard, the score, a photo, a visit. Who acts: wise way, facts. A sentence of the lesson «My dad could lift a car: playground boasting» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/48-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting/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/) / [My dad could lift a car: playground bo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/48-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting/) / 4 # My dad could lift a car: playground boasting, sentence 4 The wise way is in the middle: enjoy the pride, and let the facts settle it — the chessboard, the score, a photo, a visit. **Who acts:** wise way, facts · **What happens:** be, enjoy, let, settle · **To what, where:** middle, pride, facts, way This is a sentence of the lesson «My dad could lift a car: playground boasting» 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 (wise way, facts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:048-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting.lesson:4 # text = The wise way is in the middle: enjoy the pride, and let the facts settle it — the chessboard, the score, a photo, a visit. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 048-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 9 enjoy enjoy VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 facts fact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 settle settle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 — - PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 chessboard chessboard NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 score score NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 photo photo NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 visit visit NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **is** | present | the wise way | | | the middle | | | tree rules | | 2 | **enjoy** | infinitive | | the pride | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pride=Stimulus | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | | the facts | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **settle** | infinitive | the facts *not said here* | way | | | | | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=Location | 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:048-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting.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): 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. 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