--- title: To find the start, begin with what is left at the end and undo the s… — Working backwards through three steps · tree and pragmatics description: To find the start, begin with what is left at the end and undo the steps one by one, from the last to the first. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Working backwards through three steps» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/172-backwards-three-steps/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/) / [Working backwards through three steps](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/172-backwards-three-steps/) / 0 # Working backwards through three steps, sentence 0 To find the start, begin with what is left at the end and undo the steps one by one, from the last to the first. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** find, begin, leave, undo · **To what, where:** start, end, steps This is a sentence of the lesson «Working backwards through 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: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:lessons:172-backwards-three-steps.lesson:0 # text = To find the start, begin with what is left at the end and undo the steps one by one, from the last to the first. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = lessons # lesson = 172-backwards-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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 find find VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 start start NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 begin begin VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obl _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 undo undo VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 flat _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 24 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obl 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the start | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent start=Topic | | 2 | **begin** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with what=Subeventuality | | 3 | **leave** | present · passive | | | | | at the end | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: at end=Location | | 4 | **undo** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the steps | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Patient | 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:lessons:172-backwards-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): R5-strong ×3, 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/). - ← previous: [The unknown on both sides of a story, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/171-unknown-on-both-sides/2/) - next →: [Working backwards through three steps, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/172-backwards-three-steps/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/172-backwards-three-steps/)