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title: First ask: what kind of story is it? — Mixed challenge: reasoning stories · tree and pragmatics
description: First ask: what kind of story is it? Who acts: you, story. A sentence of the lesson «Mixed challenge: reasoning stories» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Mixed challenge: reasoning stories, sentence 1

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First ask: what kind of story is it?

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**Who acts:** you, story · **What happens:** ask, be · **To what, where:** kind · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mixed challenge: reasoning stories» 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: who acts (you, story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:120-mixed-review.lesson:1
# text = First ask: what kind of story is it?
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 120-mixed-review.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): no change
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	_
2	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	_
5	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | story | what kind |  |  |  | of story | 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:lessons:120-mixed-review.lesson:1`.

**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): no change. **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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