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title: A story can start with some things and then some of them go away: gi… — Some go away: how many are left · tree and pragmatics
description: A story can start with some things and then some of them go away: given away, lost or sold. Who acts: story, some. A sentence of the lesson «Some go away: how many are left» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Some go away: how many are left, sentence 0

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A story can start with some things and then some of them go away: given away, lost or sold.

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**Who acts:** story, some · **What happens:** start, go away, give away, lose, sell

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Some go away: how many are left» 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 (story, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:073-separate-result-unknown.lesson:0
# text = A story can start with some things and then some of them go away: given away, lost or sold.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 073-separate-result-unknown.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **start** | can | a story |  |  |  |  | with some things | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with thing=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **go away** | present | some |  |  |  | then | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **give away** | participle | some *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lose** | participle | some *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sell** | participle | some *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |

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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:073-separate-result-unknown.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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