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title: Now." works as a command too, and "please" is kindness, not grammar. — Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, comma… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now." works as a command too, and "please" is kindness, not grammar. A sentence of the lesson «Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations, sentence 2

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Now." works as a command too, and "please" is kindness, not grammar.

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**What happens:** work, be · **To what, where:** kindness

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:007-kinds-of-sentences.lesson:2
# text = Now." works as a command too, and "please" is kindness, not grammar.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 007-kinds-of-sentences.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
12	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	grammar	grammar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  | now | as a command | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as command=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | kindness and grammar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:007-kinds-of-sentences.lesson:2`.

**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): 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.

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

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