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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 (Other languages, French girl, French morning, Italian nonna), 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:5 # text = Other languages use animals and things: a French girl has «a wolf's hunger», a French morning is «duck cold», and an Italian nonna loves you «a sackful». # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 languages language NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 hunger hunger NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 24 duck duck NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 Italian Italian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 nonna nonna NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 loves love VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:nsubj 34 « « PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 sackful sackful NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:xcomp 37 » » PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Other languages | animals and things | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent animal=Theme clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **have** | present | a French girl | a wolf's hunger | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunger=Patient | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a French morning | | | | | cold *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **love** | present | a Italian nonna | you | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hunger** *in a quote* | | a wolf | | | | | | nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=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:053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.lesson:5`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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