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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 (English mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.lesson:1 # text = An English mum has told you «a million times», a Spanish mum «a thousand times» (mil veces), a Ukrainian mum «a hundred times» (сто разів, sto raziv). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obl:unmarked 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 Spanish Spanish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det 18 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod:unmarked _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 22 mil mil NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 veces vez NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 parataxis _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 Ukrainian Ukrainian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 29 « « PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:nmod:unmarked 33 » » PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 35 сто сто NOUN FW Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur 36 nmod _ _ 36 разів разів NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 parataxis _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 sto sto X FW _ 39 compound _ _ 39 raziv raziv NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 40 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - 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 · perfect | a English mum and a Spanish mum thousand times and a Ukrainian mum | | you | | time | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | 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:053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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