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title: Each story asks for one number that is missing: a start, a change, a… — Review: adding and taking away stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Each story asks for one number that is missing: a start, a change, an end, a whole, a part or a difference. Who acts: story, one number. A sentence of the lesson «Review: adding and taking away stories» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Review: adding and taking away stories, sentence 0

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Each story asks for one number that is missing: a start, a change, an end, a whole, a part or a difference.

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**Who acts:** story, one number · **What happens:** ask, be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Review: adding and taking away 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 (story, one number), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:080-mixed-review.lesson:0
# text = Each story asks for one number that is missing: a start, a change, an end, a whole, a part or a difference.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 080-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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:aux
9	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	whole	whole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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* | present | each story |  |  |  |  | for one number | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | one number |  |  |  |  | missing *property* | 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:080-mixed-review.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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