--- title: Giant companies started small too: Apple, the famous story goes, beg… — The school fair, famous companies and being your… · tree and pragmatics description: Giant companies started small too: Apple, the famous story goes, began with two young men in a garage and now sells phones to the whole world; big companies are often owned by thousands of people who each hold small pieces called shares. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (famous story, Giant companies, thousands, hold small pieces), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:032-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss.lesson:2 # text = Giant companies started small too: Apple, the famous story goes, began with two young men in a garage and now sells phones to the whole world; big companies are often owned by thousands of people who each hold small pieces called shares. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 032-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss.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 1 Giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 companies company NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 3 started start VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 too too ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 Apple Apple PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 14 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 17 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 garage garage NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 24 sells sell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 25 phones phone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 31 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 companies company NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 34 often often ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 owned own VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 parataxis _ _ 36 by by ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ _ 40 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 39 acl:relcl _ _ 41 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 44 det _ _ 42 hold hold NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 43 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 45 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 acl _ _ 46 shares share NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 xcomp _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | participle | | Giant companies Apple *not said here* | | | | small *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **go** | present | the famous story | Apple *not said here* | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location apple=Theme | | 3 | **begin** | past | Giant companies Apple | | | | | with two young men in a garage | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with man=Subeventuality | | 4 | **sell** | present | Giant companies Apple *not said here* | phones | the whole world | | now | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent phone=Theme to world=Recipient | | 5 | **own** | present · passive | thousands of people | big companies | | | | often *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme | | 6 | **call** | participle | each hold small pieces *not said here* | shares | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:money:032-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss.lesson:2`. **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. **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. 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