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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 (Ukrainian grandma, English, all), 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:9 # text = «¡Te lo he dicho mil veces!» is Spanish for «I've told you a thousand times!»; English uses a million, Spanish a thousand, Ukrainian a hundred, and all mean «lots». # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 2 ¡ ¡ PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 3 Te te PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ _ 4 lo lo PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 5 he have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 dicho dicho VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 mil mil NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 veces vez NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 ! ! PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 Spanish Spanish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 ! ! PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obl 29 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 30 Spanish spanish DET PDT PronType=Tot 32 det:predet _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 Ukrainian Ukrainian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=26:cc 39 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 40 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot 40 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 41 « « ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:obl 43 » » PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **dicho** *in a quote* | present · perfect | | lo | Te | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | spanish *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · perfect | a Ukrainian grandma *= grandma* | | you | | time | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 4 | **use** | present | English | a million | | | | spanish thousand *obl*; a hundred *obl* | tree rules | | 5 | **mean** | present | all | lots | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic | 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:9`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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