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description: A preposition shows place, time or connection, like on, in, at, under, behind, before, after and with; it comes before a noun or pronoun, as in "under the desk". Who acts: preposition, connection. A sentence of the lesson «Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences together» of 
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# Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences together, sentence 5

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A preposition shows place, time or connection, like on, in, at, under, behind, before, after and with; it comes before a noun or pronoun, as in "under the desk".

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**Who acts:** preposition, connection · **What happens:** show, come · **To what, where:** place, noun

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences together» 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 (preposition, connection), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:006-prepositions-and-conjunctions.lesson:5
# text = A preposition shows place, time or connection, like on, in, at, under, behind, before, after and with; it comes before a noun or pronoun, as in "under the desk".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 006-prepositions-and-conjunctions.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	preposition	preposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:appos
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
8	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
19	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	before	before	ADP	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	conj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
29	before	before	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=31:cc
33	pronoun	pronoun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	_
38	under	under	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	desk	desk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a preposition | place and time or connection |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent place=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | present | connection |  |  | a noun or pronoun |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before noun=Location |

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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.

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**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:006-prepositions-and-conjunctions.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): R1-cc-next ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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