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title: A long story can be solved one step at a time: find one number, use… — A story in three steps · tree and pragmatics
description: A long story can be solved one step at a time: find one number, use it to find the next, then finish. A sentence of the lesson «A story in three steps» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# A story in three steps, sentence 0

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A long story can be solved one step at a time: find one number, use it to find the next, then finish.

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**What happens:** solve, find, use, finish · **To what, where:** long story, one number, number, next

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A story in three steps» of the lessons 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:lessons:119-three-steps.lesson:0
# text = A long story can be solved one step at a time: find one number, use it to find the next, then finish.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 119-three-steps.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	solved	solve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
25	finish	finish	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **solve** | can · passive |  | a long story |  |  |  | one step at a time *obl* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **find** | infinitive |  | one number |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 3 | **use** | infinitive |  | number |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | the next |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent next=Topic |
| 5 | **finish** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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:lessons:119-three-steps.lesson:0`.

**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): 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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